Socialbots and their friends: digital media and the automation of sociality

by Bakardjieva, Maria Gehl, Robert W.

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Title Statements

Full title :Socialbots and their friends : digital media and the automation of sociality / edited by Robert W. Gehl and Maria Bakardjieva.

Summary

"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"--The publisher

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317267393, 1317267397
oclc:ocn965196678
LC Classification:QA76.9.H85
Dewey Decimal:004.01/9

pt. I. Friends -- pt. II. Socialbots.

Subjects

Artificial intelligence -- Social aspec… Computer software -- Social aspects COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy COMPUTERS -- Computer Science COMPUTERS -- Data Processing COMPUTERS -- Hardware COMPUTERS -- Information Technology COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory COMPUTERS -- Reference Human-computer interaction -- Social as… Information technology -- Social aspects Intelligence artificielle -- Aspect soc… Kommunikation Künstliche Intelligenz Logiciels -- Aspect social Mensch Online social networks Réseaux sociaux (Internet) social media Technologie de l'information -- Aspect …