Communication and Control
Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2015
280 pages
978-0-7391-9876-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-9876-6 (9780739198766)
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Persons
Robert C. MacDougall is professor of communication and media studies at Curry College.
Content
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
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
