General Information

Author/Creator

Eubanks, Virginia, 1972- author.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Picador ; St. Martin's Press, 2019.

Physical Description

271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated systems control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on economic inequality and democracy in America."--Front jacket flap.

Subjects

Subject

Poor > Services for > United States > Data processing.

Poverty > United States.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Virginia Eubanks.

Title Variation

How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor.

Content

Introduction: Red flags -- From poorhouse to database -- Automating eligibility in the heartland -- High-tech homelessness in the City of Angels -- The Allegheny algorithm -- The digital poorhouse -- Conclusion: dismantling the digital poorhouse -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and methods -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

9781250215789

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	362.560285 EUB		Reference	-

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