We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves 9781479808700, 1479808709

What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Al

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We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
9781479808700, 1479808709

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