From belli at uni-bremen.de Thu Nov 10 10:17:34 2022 From: belli at uni-bremen.de (Alessandro Belli) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:17:34 +0100 Subject: [EuropeanMediaSalon] Communicative AI, Human-Machine Communication and the Automation of media and Communications: Taking a societal view Message-ID: <6A9D1019-98E8-48D3-B51A-C17E77C58DA7@uni-bremen.de> Hello everyone! We’re pleased to announce that the next event for European Media Salon will take place Wednesday, 30.11 at 06:00 PM CET. 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. Discussants: Leopoldina Fortunati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldina_Fortunati) David Gunkel (https://www.gunkelweb.com ) Following the Zoom Link to join: European Media Salon https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96212107399?pwd=K3hvTHljKzJwQndFeUlvajRhaGsvZz09 Meeting-ID: 962 1210 7399 code: 044216 Best regards, European Media Salon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ems at uni-bremen.de Mon Nov 28 11:09:49 2022 From: ems at uni-bremen.de (European Media Salon) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:09:49 +0100 Subject: [EuropeanMediaSalon] This Wednesday: Communicative AI, Human-Machine Communication and the Automation of media and Communications: Taking a societal view Message-ID: <58BC044B-8410-4081-89BC-2B99EEC8E07A@uni-bremen.de> Hello everyone! We’re pleased to announce that the next event for European Media Salon will take place this Wednesday, 30.11 at 06:00 PM CET. 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. The conversation will be about questions of fascination with the automation of communication, about the object of automation, and about implications for the discussion of artificial intelligence. Discussants: Leopoldina Fortunati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldina_Fortunati) David Gunkel (https://www.gunkelweb.com ) Following the Zoom Link to join: European Media Salon https://uni-bremen.zoom.us/j/96212107399?pwd=K3hvTHljKzJwQndFeUlvajRhaGsvZz09 Meeting-ID: 962 1210 7399 code: 044216 Best regards, European Media Salon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: