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Socialbots and their friends : digital media and the automation of sociality / edited by Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva.
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Language
English
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New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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xvi, 253 pages ; 24 cm
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QA76.9.H85 S6335 2017
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Human-computer interaction
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Social aspects
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Computer software
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Artificial intelligence
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Online social networks
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Information technology
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Gehl, Robert W.
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Bakardjieva, Maria, 1959-
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Summary note
"Many users of the Internet are aware of bots: automated programs that work behind the scenes to come up with search suggestions, check the weather, filter emails, or clean up Wikipedia entries. More recently, a new software robot has been making its presence felt in social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter - the socialbot. However, unlike other bots, socialbots are built to appear human. While a weatherbot will tell you if it's sunny and a spambot will incessantly peddle Viagra, socialbots will ask you questions, have conversations, like your posts, retweet you, and become your friend. All the while, if they're well-programmed, you won't know that you're tweeting and friending with a robot. Who benefits from the use of software robots? Who loses? Does a bot deserve rights? Who pulls the strings of these bots? Who has the right to know what about them? What does it mean to be intelligent? What does it mean to be a friend? Socialbots and Their Friends: Digital Media and the Automation of Sociality is one of the first academic collections to critically consider the socialbot and tackle these pressing questions" -- From the publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Socialbots and their friends / Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva
The blurring test / Peggy Weil
The socialization of early internet bots : IRC and the ecology of human-robot interactions online / Guillaume Latzko-Toth
Making AI safe for humans : a conversation with Siri / Andrea L. Guzman
Embodied conversational agents as social actors? : sociological considerations on the change of human-machine relations in online environments / Florian Muhle
Contested play : the culture and politics of Reddit bots / Adrienne L. Massanari
Semi-autonomous fan fiction : Japanese character bots and non-human affect / Keiko Nishimura
Speculation on the sociality of socialbots / Grant Bollmer and Chris Rodley
Authenticiy by design : reflections on researching, designing and teaching socialbots / Stefano De Paoli, Leslie Ball, Natalie Coull, John Isaacs, Angus MacDonald, and Jonathan Letham
Do socialbots dream of popping the filter bubble? : the role of socialbots in promoting deliberative democracy in social media / Timothy Graham and Robert Ackland
Rationalizing sociality : an unfinished script for socialbots / Maria Bakardjieva
The other question : socialbots and the question of ethics / David J. Gunkel.
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ISBN
9781138639393 (hardback)
1138639397 (hardback)
9781138639409 (pbk.)
1138639400 (pbk.)
LCCN
2016027111
OCLC
957455104
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