{"product_id":"bargaining-with-the-machine-technology-surveillance-and-the-social-contract-hardcover","title":"Bargaining with the Machine: Technology, Surveillance, and the Social Contract - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert M. Pallitto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCell phone apps share location information; software companies store user data in the cloud; biometric scanners read fingerprints; employees of some businesses have microchips implanted in their hands. In each of these instances we trade a share of privacy or an aspect of identity for greater convenience or improved security. What Robert M. Pallitto asks in \u003ci\u003eBargaining with the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is whether we are truly making such bargains freely--whether, in fact, such a transaction can be conducted freely or advisedly in our ever more technologically sophisticated world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePallitto uses the social theory of bargaining to look at the daily compromises we make with technology. Specifically, he explores whether resisting these \"bargains\" is still possible when the technologies in question are backed by persuasive, even coercive, corporate and state power. Who, he asks, is proposing the bargain? What is the balance of bargaining power? What is surrendered and what is gained? And are the perceived and the actual gains and losses the same--that is, what is hidden? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of Pallitto's work is the paradox of bargaining in a world of limited agency. Assurances that we are in control are abundant whether we are consumers, voters, or party to the social contract. But when purchasing goods from a technological behemoth like Amazon, or when choosing a candidate whose image is crafted and shaped by campaign strategists and media outlets, how truly free, let alone informed, are our choices? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tension between claims of agency and awareness of its limits is the site where we experience our social lives--and nowhere is this tension more pronounced than in the surveillance society. This book offers a cogent analysis of how that complex, contested, and even paradoxical experience arises as well as an unusually clear and troubling view of the consequential compromises we may be making.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52697919815987,"sku":"9780700629848","price":186.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZlJGcnptUjZRUkNKNUYwUGlTdmZvZz09.webp?v=1763150347","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/bargaining-with-the-machine-technology-surveillance-and-the-social-contract-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}