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Socialbots and their friends, digital media and the automation of sociality, edited by Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Socialbots and their friends

bibliography

957455104

edited by Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva

digital media and the automation of sociality

"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

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