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    Raising the ideal child? Algorithms, quantification and prediction

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    Authors
    Willson, Michele
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Willson, M. 2018. Raising the ideal child? Algorithms, quantification and prediction. Media, Culture and Society. online first: pp. 1-17.
    Source Title
    Media, Culture and Society
    DOI
    10.1177/0163443718798901
    ISSN
    0163-4437
    School
    Humanities Research and Graduate Studies
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73194
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The world in which the contemporary child is conceived and raised is one that is increasingly monitored, analysed and manipulated through technological processes. Simultaneously, expectations for the child are changing as new tools and practices for quantifying, managing and predicting achievements and future possibilities become available. Algorithms as ways of anticipating, doing or fixing are central to these technological processes. These intersect with and are informed by social, cultural and political discourses that imagine the ‘ideal’ child. Therefore, this article explores the power of algorithms within the everyday of the child. Drawing upon examples of quantification and prediction practices in the commercial and state sectors, the article raises questions about the issues, challenges and politics of these types of algorithmic approaches in raising and imagining the ‘ideal child’.

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