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Communication and control : tools, systems, and new dimensions /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: MacDougall, Robert C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A brief history of communication and control in animals and machines / Robert C. MacDougall
  • Four dimensions of control / Robert C. MacDougall
  • Panic button: thinking historically about danger, interfaces, and control-at-a-distance / Rachel Plotnick
  • A waiting room without walls: paging, pagers, and the rise of mobile communication / Benjamin Morton
  • Chained to the dialer, or Frederick Taylor reaches out and touches someone / Brett Lunceford
  • Chatbots in the metropolis: Turing and the communicative labor of the multitude / Kevin Cummings and Cameron Kunzelman
  • Knowledge management systems and remote control: noopower and the contemporary transnational corporation / Robert W. Gehl
  • So many choices, so little choice: streaming media, algorithmic efficiency, and the illusion of control / Matthew Pittman and Ryan S. Eanes
  • Educational policy and political action as a mechanism of remote control / Karla I. Loya and Ezekiel W. Kimball
  • Mobile geospatial search and the limits of knowledge: linking application design and use in time and space / Jim E. Thatcher
  • Reflections on organization, emergence, and control in sociotechnical systems / Vincenzo De Florio
  • Mediascape as battlefield: networked infrastructure and smart war / Kathleen F. Oswald
  • Remotely piloted vehicles, ubiquitous networks, and new manifestations of remote control in open society national security environments / R.E. Burnett
  • Remotely human: the emergence of the companion-head / Madhusudan Raman.