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Twitterbots - Making Machines that Make Meaning (Hardcover)
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Twitterbots - Making Machines that Make Meaning (Hardcover)
Series: Twitterbots
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The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot
construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe.
Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for
humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software
systems that send messages of their own composition into the
Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators; the next
person to follow you on Twitter or to "like" your tweets may not a
person at all. The next generator of content that you follow on
Twitter may also be a bot. This book examines the world of
Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to the hows and whys of
bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape. In
Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the
technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the
implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater
knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft
witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. Veale and
Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter's most notable bots,
from the deadpan @big_ben_clock, which tweets a series of BONGs
every hour to mark the time, to the delightful @pentametron, which
finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to
the disaster of Microsoft's @TayAndYou (which "learned" conspiracy
theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). They
explain how to navigate Twitter's software interfaces to program
your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a
minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their
generative worlds. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought
experiment given digital form; each embodies a hypothesis about the
nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its
followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of
automated creation. Some bots are as malevolent as their authors.
Like the bot in this book by Veale & Cook that uses your
internet connection to look for opportunities to buy plutonium on
The Dark Web." -@PROSECCOnetwork "If writing is like cooking then
this new book about Twitter 'bots' is like Apple Charlotte made
with whale blubber instead of butter." -@PROSECCOnetwork These bot
critiques generated at
https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/PROSECCOnetwork
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