Communication and Control

Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of “remote control” related to education, organizational design, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, drones, and even binge-watching on Netflix. In line with a systems view, the collection takes up a media ecological view. This work will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in communication, new media, and technology.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-07-01
Mått161 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739198759

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Chapter 1: A Brief History of Communication and Control in Humans and Machines. Robert C. MacDougallChapter 2: Four Dimensions of Control.Robert C. MacDougallChapter 3: Panic Button: Thinking Historically about Danger, Interfaces, and Control-at-a-Distance. Rachel PlotnickChapter 4: A Waiting Room Without Walls: Paging, Pagers, and the Future of Mobile Communication.Benjamin Morton Chapter 5: Chained to the Dialer, or Frederick Taylor Reaches Out and Touches Someone Brett LuncefordChapter 6: Chatbots in the Metropolis: Turing and the Communicative Labor of the MultitudeKevin Cummings and Cameron KunzelmanChapter 7: Remote Control from the C-Suite: Chief Knowledge Officers, Chief Learning Officers, and Globalized Corporate Noopower. Robert Gehl Chapter 8: So Many Choices, So Little Choice: Streaming media, artificial intelligence, and the Illusion of Control. Matthew Pittman and Ryan Eanes Chapter 9: Educational Policy and Political Action as Mechanisms of Remote Control.Zeke Kimball and Karla Loya Chapter 10: Mobile geospatial search and the limits of knowledge: linking application design and use in time and space. Jim ThatcherChapter 11: Reflections on the Nature of Organization, Control and Resilience in Sociotechnical Systems. Vincenzo DeFlorio Chapter 12: Mediascape as Battlefield: Infrastructure Convergence and Smart War.Kathleen Oswald Chapter 13: Remotely Piloted Vehicles, Ubiquitous Networks, and new manifestations of Control in Open Society National Security Environments.R.E. Burnett Chapter 14: Remotely Human: The ‘Remote-Me’ and the Emergence of the Companion-Head. Madhusudan Raman

The shift from analog to digital is about much more than efficiency, precision, and progress. As MacDougall points out, it is a dramatic shift in what it is to be human and how we relate to the world. Computers are enveloping areas of expertise that were once the sole domain of human creativity and are transforming the relationship of humans to those domains. Such a shift is difficult to see and discuss, but MacDougall gets the conversation started.