Communication and Control

Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions
Herausgeber: Macdougall, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780739198759
• ISBN-10: 0739198750
• Artikelnr.: 42647733

Autorenporträt

Robert C. MacDougall is professor of communication and media studies at Curry College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Brief History of Communication and Control in Humans and
Machines.
Robert C. MacDougall
Chapter 2: Four Dimensions of Control.
Robert C. MacDougall
Chapter 3: Panic Button: Thinking Historically about Danger, Interfaces,
and Control-at-a-Distance.
Rachel Plotnick
Chapter 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 Lunceford
Chapter 6: Chatbots in the Metropolis: Turing and the Communicative Labor
of the Multitude
Kevin Cummings and Cameron Kunzelman
Chapter 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 Thatcher
Chapter 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