How Computers Create Social Structures

Silvio Carta is an architect (ARB/RIBA), Chartered Building Engineer (MCABE) and Professor of Architecture at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of Big Data, Code and the Discrete City: Shaping Public Realms (2019) and Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design (2022).

• .- Chapter 1: Introduction - Human Geography, Information and Communication Technology and Digital Sociology..- Chapter 2: The Role of Computers in the Generation of Social Groups..- Chapter 3: Collectives, Technology, Online Apps and Social Networks..- Chapter 4: Software, Automated Spatial Configurations and the Built Environment..- Chapter 5: Data Ethics, Fairness and Bias..- Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Future of Automatic and Accidental Collectives.