Communication and Control : Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780739198766
- 004.01/9
- TK5105.5 .M384 2015
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Brief History of Communication and Control in Animals and Machines -- 2 Four Dimensions of Control -- 3 Panic Button -- 4 A Waiting Room Without Walls -- 5 Chained to the Dialer, or Frederick Taylor Reaches Out and Touches Someone -- 6 Chatbots in the Metropolis -- 7 Knowledge Management Systems and Remote Control -- 8 So Many Choices, So Little Choice -- 9 Educational Policy and Political Action as a Mechanism of Remote Control -- 10 Mobile Geospatial Search and the Limits of Knowledge -- 11 Reflections on Organization, Emergence, and Control in Sociotechnical Systems -- 12 Mediascape as Battlefield -- 13 Remotely Piloted Vehicles, Ubiquitous Networks, and New Manifestations of Remote Control in Open Society National Security Environments -- 14 Remotely Human -- Appendix -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.
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