A new framework for understanding how algorithms influenceWeb
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.
General
Imprint: |
University of South Carolina Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Miles C Coleman
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64336-459-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-64336-459-6 |
Barcode: |
9781643364599 |
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