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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Robert MacDougall - Contributions by R.E. Burnett; Kevin Cummings; Vincenzo DeFlorio; Ryan Eanes; Robert Gehl; Zeke Kimball; Cameron Kunzelman; Karla Loya; Brett Lunceford; Robert MacDougall; Benjamin Morton; Kathleen Oswald; Matthew Pittman; Ra Klappentext 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 ) today 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-viewing on Netflix. In line with a systems view, the collection takes up a media ecological view." Zusammenfassung Communication and Control: Tools! Systems! and New Dimensions examines a wide range of communication structures and control systems from low- to high-tech and advocates a media ecological view of human communication in a time of intelligent! learning machines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: A Brief History of Communication and Control in Humans and Machines. Robert C. MacDougallChapter 2: Four Dimensions of Control. Robert C. MacDougallChapter 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 LuncefordChapter 6: Chatbots in the Metropolis: Turing and the Communicative Labor of the MultitudeKevin Cummings and Cameron KunzelmanChapter 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 ThatcherChapter 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...