Anthony Elliott 

Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. He is the author and editor of over 50 books, translated in more than a dozen languages. He was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to education, social science policy and research.
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In the digital age, the promise of personal freedom has been overshadowed by a new form of anxiety: the fear of being constantly watched and analyzed. The omnipresence of surveillance through Big Data turns our lives into a series of algorithm-driven decisions, as we increasingly hand over our autonomy to artificial intelligence. Are we truly liberating ourselves, or are we merely transferring our anxiety to the machines that watch over us?
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Anxiety in the Age of Algorithms: The Cost of Outsourced Freedom

Excerpt from Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age , by Anthony Elliott, published by Polity Press, Cambridge, in…

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