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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures IX
4. List of Tables XI
5. Chapter 1 Navigating Automated Futures: A Framework for Playing and Learning with Imaginaries, Interactions, and Impact 1
6. Chapter 2 Automation and Futures: Doing Social Science Forward 19
7. Part 1: Imaginaries
8. Chapter 3 Peter’s Problem. An Analysis of the Imaginaries about Automated Futures Portrayed in QualityLand 37
9. Chapter 4 ‘Where are my robots, Mija?!’ A Situated Review of Technological Change Narratives in Latin America 55
10. Chapter 5 The Possible Futures of Automated Public Space 73
11. Chapter 6 Small Automation: Thinking Through the Texture of Automated Systems 89
12. Chapter 7 The House as a Machine for Living: Dreams of Domestic Automation, 1923–2023 105
13. Chapter 8 Necrorobotics. The Ethics of Resurrecting the Dead 121
14. Chapter 9 Unveiling Ambiguity: Dilemmas of Automation in Medical Imaging 139
15. Chapter 10 Algorithmic Europe: Narratives of Risks and Benefits of Public–Private Interaction in Public Sector AI 157
16. Part 2: Interactions
17. Chapter 11 Algorithmic Agency, Automated Content, and User Engagement on TikTok 175
18. Chapter 12 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Predictive Policing and Structural Biases in Automated Criminal Justice Techniques 191
19. Chapter 13 Sound Automation: Some Provisional Lessons from Electronic Music 207
20. Chapter 14 Collaborative Future-Making: Bridging the Everyday and the Global Political Economy of Automated Health 223
21. Chapter 15 Pursuing the Promises of Personalisation: Fetish and Friction in Futures of Automated News 239
22. Chapter 16 Beyond Human Oversight—Quality Management as a Tool to Control Automated Decision-Making Systems 255
23. Chapter 17 Beware of ‘Bossware’: The Role of Communities for Gig Workers Dealing with Algorithmic Management 271
24. Chapter 18 Silicon Valley’s Frictionless Future: The Design Philosophy of Frictionlessness 287
25. Chapter 19 Automated Afterlives 303
26. Chapter 20 Wuthering Weights—Localisation Trajectories of Machine Learning Models for Local Ends 321
27. Part 3: Impacts
28. Chapter 21 Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures 339
29. Chapter 22 Exploring Automated Futures through Game-making 359
30. Chapter 23 Soothing the Socio-Ethical Unease: Trolley Problems in the Age of Automated Decision-Making 379
31. Chapter 24 Arts-Based and Sensory Methods to Imagine More-than-Human Automated Futures 395
32. Chapter 25 Sustainable Automated Futures: Participatory Human Approaches to Urban Mobility 413
33. Chapter 26 People on the Road: From Automated Mobility to Autonomous Human Actors through a People-Centred Approach 435
34. Author Biographies 453
35. Index 459