The Ambient Politics of Affective Computing.
Much attention to affective computing has focused on its alleged ability to "tap into human affects," a trope also foundational to broader theorizations about big‐data surveillance. What remains understudied and undertheorized is affective computing's social life, where interested parties contest an...
| Publicado en: | Public Culture Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 21 - 46 |
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Duke University Press
Jan2022
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