Socialbots and Their Friends: Digital Media and the Automation of Sociality

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

254 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317267393

Related ISBNs:

9781315637228, 9781138639393, 9781138639393, 9781138639409, 9781138639409, 9781315637228, 9781138639393, 9781138639393, 9781138639409, 9781138639409, 9781138639393, 9781138639409, 9781315637228

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/20/19

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Social Studies, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Robert W. Gehl

Edited by:

Maria Bakardjieva