These reviews are now available to read through Project Muse and in the printed Journal, Volume 56 No. 1.
From Russia With Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
Edited by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay
"From Russia With Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times, edited by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay, chronicles the post-Soviet evolution of programming and computer science cultures as they have unfolded over these years."
Reviewed by Adam Kriesberg
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence by Brian Cantwell Smith; Cloud Ethics by Louise Amoore
(Dual Review)
Full subtitles: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgement / Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others
"Each book offers a rigorous, engaging, and ambitious take on how humans and algorithms relate to each other, and the areas in which they share form and content represent a potential consensus in this field of inquiry."
Reviewed by Elliott Hauser
Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law by Mark Burdon
"We learn from Burdon that individual autonomy has long been seen as a key value facilitated by privacy, perhaps even its ultimate purpose or justification."
Reviewed by Brandon Butler
Reprogramming the American Dream by Kevin Scott, with Greg Shaw
Full subtitle: Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley – Making AI Serve Us All
"People are situated in specific geographies and communities with specific historical and economic contours. So too are the technologies we build and the actions we take to incite change."
Reviewed by Christine T. Wolf