The Costs of Connection

Couldry, Nick; Mejías, Ulises Ali

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“…It wreaks havoc on a company's bottom line, costing companies a staggering 12% of overall revenue [7]. Besides, data is a new resource suitable for extracting and processing and contributes to the existing scope of problems [8]. Poisoning the data is just on of the possible ways of malicious use of data, informational technologies [9].…”

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Smart Algorithms and Psychological Warfare: Russian and Latin American Studies

Polunina¹,

Romanov²,

Matanis³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Conference on Current Problems of Our Time: The Relationship of Man and Society (CPT 2020)

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Since the process and then the notion of the psychological warfare has become the part of our life it is constantly changing, becoming more sophisticated. Radio and TV brought psychological warfare nearly in every house in the 20 th century. Internet and social media contributed greatly to the cross-boarding opportunities of psychological warfare. Modern stage is characterized by the appearance and development of smart algorithms and their integration into our life. The research is mainly based on the theoretical analysis of the notion psychological warfare within the modern context. It is also aimed at defining the role and the influence of smart algorithms on the practice of psychological warfare in Russia and Latin American countries.

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Smart Algorithms and Psychological Warfare: Russian and Latin American Studies

Polunina¹,

Romanov²,

Matanis³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Conference on Current Problems of Our Time: The Relationship of Man and Society (CPT 2020)

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“…But there also rests in the background of this discussion what can only be described as communicative automation. Automated communication with communicative robots is integrated into far-reaching and complex functionalities that not only serve to collect data in the pursuit of recruiting communicative robots as agents in the projects of ‘data colonialism’ (Couldry and Mejias, 2019) and ‘surveillance capitalism’ (Zuboff, 2019): the colonialisation of more and more parts of everyday life through data collection procedures, which are subsequently monetised, and, in turn, maintain the project of capitalist value creation. At the same time, there is also the matter of how communicative robots take part in the trajectory towards the general automation of the social world.…”

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Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies

Hepp

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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The aim of this article is to outline ‘communicative robots’ as an increasingly relevant field of media and communication research. Communicative robots are defined as autonomously operating systems designed for the purpose of quasi-communication with human beings to enable further algorithmic-based functionalities – often but not always on the basis of artificial intelligence. Examples of these communicative robots can be seen in the now familiar artificial companions such as Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa, the social bots present on social media platforms or work bots that automatically generate journalistic content. In all, the article proceeds in three steps. Initially, it takes a closer look at the three examples of artificial companions, social bots and work bots in order to accurately describe the phenomenon and their recent insinuation into everyday life. This will then allow me to grasp the challenges posed by the increasing need to deal with communicative robots in media and communication research. It is from this juncture from where I would like to draw back on the discussion about the automation of communication and clearly outline how communicative robots are more likely than physical artefacts to be experienced at the interface of automated communication and communicative automation.

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“…One consequence of the future-oriented preoccupation in machine learning and the corporate and administrative choices relying on it is what Couldry and Mejias (2019) have named ‘a new social epistemology’ (p. 126). It is not interested in explaining why users chose to make certain decisions or acted that way and not another as long as it can predict how they will behave next time.…”

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Imagining and instituting future media: Introduction to the special issue

Pentzold

Kaun

Lohmeier

2020

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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In our fast-forward times, the special issue ‘Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies’ examines the future-making capacity of networked services and digital data. Its contributions ask about the role media play in forecasting the future and their part in bringing it about. And they are interested in the expectations and anticipatory visions that accompany the formation and spread of new media. Along these lines, the eight articles in this special issue explore the future-making dimension of new media. As a whole, they provide an empirically grounded analysis of the ways media reconfigure the relations and distances among present, past, and future times. The contributions delineate imaginaries of futures related to digital media. Furthermore, they attend to interventions into the plans and efforts of making futures and they inquire about the creation of differently vast and (un)certain horizons of expectation. Together, the articles share the assumption that mediated futures are actively accomplished and enacted; they do not simply appear or wait for us to arrive in them.

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The Costs of Connection

Cited by 500 publications

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Smart Algorithms and Psychological Warfare: Russian and Latin American Studies

Smart Algorithms and Psychological Warfare: Russian and Latin American Studies

Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies

Imagining and instituting future media: Introduction to the special issue

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