Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance - Couverture souple

Coleman, Miles C.

 
9781643364599: Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1643364596 ISBN 13 : 9781643364599
Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

A new framework for understanding how algorithms influence

Web applications offer us conclusions about science. Twitter bots generate art. Machine-learning systems satirize politicians. We live in an era where a substantial share of our private and public communication is machinic. Modern computing machines cannot yet speak for themselves--although the capacities of AI are rapidly expanding--but they generate rhetorical energies as they give advice, entertain, and proffer insight, speaking to human concerns in more-than-human ways and guiding human action.

In Influential Machines Miles C. Coleman looks beyond human communication to interrogate the ways in which the machines and algorithms in our lives make meaning and the implications of their special modes of communication. Using the varied examples of an anti-vax "vaccine calculator," two Twitterbots, and the computational performances of virtual assistants, Coleman asks what machines mean to us as social agents and whether humans are the appropriate reference for designing machine communication. Coleman goes beyond the front and back ends of computing to describe the "deep end" of computing, a site of ambient rhetoric that is essential for understanding how machines move in today's digital world.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Miles C. Coleman is associate professor of communication studies at Rowan University. His research has been published in books and journals including Review of Communication, Journal of Media Ethics, and Human-Machine Communication.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
University of South Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1643364596
ISBN 13 
9781643364599
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781643364582: Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1643364588 ISBN 13 :  9781643364582
Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2023
Couverture rigide