November 30, 2022
On November 30, 2022, from 6.00 to 7.00 pm, the next event of the European Media Salon will take place on the topic "Communicative AI, Human-Machine Communication and the Automation of media and Communications: Taking a societal view“.
Artificial Companions like voice-based agents, social robots, bots on Twitter and other platforms, systems of automated generation of journalistic content are increasingly spreading. These technological developments are seemingly associated with a major change in the media environment and the ways in which we communicate, challenging our understanding of the nature, actors and borders of communication. Yet, to media and communication scholars, this shift is similar to the development of the Internet towards the commercialized Web 2.0 and associated platforms. At the same time, the public, but also media and communication research, has a persistently limited view of this automation of communication. There is little discussion and research on what consequences this has for societal communication and human agency as a whole. Instead, the discourse is either dominated by techno-utopian views, or comparatively “narrowly” focused on the interaction of humans and machines as happening in a vacuum, while the research is often instrumental on the “improvement” and “implementation” of such systems. In this event of the European Media Salon we want to discuss how critical and sociologically informed research on communicative AI, human-machine-communication and the automation of communication should look like, which sees these as part of societal communication.
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For more information on the event, visit:
https://www.european-media-salon.org/events/communicative-ai-human-machine-communication-and-the-automation-of-media-and-communications-taking-a-societal-view
To register for this and future events, email:
EuropeanMediaSalon@uni-bremen.de
