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SUMMARY:Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the Worl
 d (Palgrave) book launch
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DESCRIPTION:Sam Hind (Art History and Cultural Practices\, SALC) will be 
 in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam) on Thursday 2
 1st November\, 4-5.30pm to launch his new book\, Driving Decisions: How 
 Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave).\n\nThe event is 
 supported by the Centre for Digital Humanities\, Cultures and Media. htt
 ps://www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/\n\nTo sign-up to the (onli
 ne) event\, follow the link: https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/
 form/SV_eDqtLrOJ5Cl7nNA\n\n\nAbout the book\n\nDriving Decisions: How Au
 tonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World examines the phenomenon of aut
 onomous driving\, and the ongoing\, complex\, costly\, and contentious q
 uest to automate driving. Principally organized around the concept of al
 gorithmic decision-making\, the book considers how different mapping\, s
 ensing\, and machine learning (ML)-dependent capabilities are gifted to 
 autonomous vehicles through different kinds of technical work: from comp
 uter science students annotating visual data in industry-funded research
  centres to software engineers designing ‘end-to-end’ ML models at auton
 omous vehicle start-ups. \n\nThe book intends to complicate\, and questi
 on\, typical understandings of autonomous driving by going ‘under the ho
 od’\, challenging the technological determinism or ‘decisionism’ that ad
 vocates offer of an inevitable\, fully automated\, future. Drawing on se
 ven years of research in a range of empirical contexts\, the book will a
 ppeal to scholars and students in the fields of science and technology s
 tudies\, media studies\, digital sociology\, human geography\, and mobil
 ities and transport studies.\n\nhttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9
 78-981-97-1749-1\n
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