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Communication and Control : Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739198766
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communication and ControlDDC classification:
  • 004.01/9
LOC classification:
  • TK5105.5 .M384 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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