Focusing on social robots, play, and democracy, this volume explores how AI can be used in connective ways to advance the common good and support democratic practice.
This innovative collection puts play at the center of how we think about AI and democracy, exploring how playful participation may be used to help restore the creative energies of democracy. Featuring contributions by seasoned experts, the chapters explore topics such as: social robots, play, and democracy; polymorphic chatbots and online interactions; AI curation by bot-supported agents and participatory environments; social robots, journalism, and connective action; civility and AI; collaboration between human and robotic agents in democratic spaces; democratic experiments, generative AI, and polymorphic robots; gaming, play, and democratic engagement between humans and non-humans; and AI, play and democracy. The book presents new ideas for how connective AI and social robots could be used to help reimagine and improve our everyday; specifically, how playful interaction with robotic agents could help revive civic engagement, thus ushering in a new paradigm for connective AI.
This book will be of interest to upper-level students, researchers and scholars across a variety of fields including media and communication studies, science and technology studies, and political science, particularly those exploring AI and human-computer interaction in relation to democracy and civic life.
Focusing on social robots, play, and democracy, this volume explores how AI can be used in connective ways to advance the common good and support democratic practice. This book will interest students, researchers and scholars across a variety of fields including media, communication studies and political science.
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"Can artificial intelligence serve democracy or only disrupt it? Moving beyond Silicon Valley's standard narratives, this volume proposes connective AI: technology designed with democratic values at its core rather than as afterthought. This stellar group of scholars explore alternative approaches to human-machine relations grounded in imagination, play, and collective renewal."
- Kate Crawford, Professor at the University of Southern California, author of Atlas of AI
"Dare we hope for a future where advances in digital technology radically strengthen rather than replace our social fabric and are guided rather than cynically disdained by social theory? After reading this consistently delightful, insightful and provocative collection, I do!"
- E. Glen Weyl, Founder and Chair, RadicalxChange Foundation and/or Founder and Research Lead, Microsoft Research Plural Technology Collaboratory
1. Introduction
2. What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate:
Visually Generative AI and the Civic Imagination
3. Gaming the System
4. AI
Has Joined the Chat: Exploring the Role of Generative AI Assistants in Group
Chats
5. The Silent Chatbot: On the Democratic Significance of Silence in
Ai-Mediated Communication
6. Beyond Representation and Bias: Mimicry and
Distillation through generative a.i.
7. Digital Inequality in ChatGPT
Awareness and Knowledge
8. Mainstreaming AI: How Journalists Play with
Emerging Technologies
9. Designing the AI Maze: How the Tech Industry Entraps
Users
10. The Feminist Artificial Intelligence Playbook
11. Privacy at Play:
Anticipating Hyper-Personalization in Conversational Robot Toys
12. Do Asians
Respect AI More? Towards the Social Exchange Agents Principle and
Human-Machine Harmony for Communicative AI Ethics
13. Playing with AI in
Video Games: Lessons about the Human Main Character Syndrome from
Non-Playable Characters (NPCs)
14. {Not} All Fun and Games in Virtual
Reality: The State of Pro-social and Antisocial VR Play
15. Talking to
Non-Stochastic Parrots: Human-Machine Communication and Human- Animal
Communication in Parallel Lines
16. The Model Museum: AI at the Museum-Museum
Interface
17. Gen AI in Support of Democratic Debates? The Case of
Environmental Activism
18. Voice of the Ogiek: Play, Co-Design, and the
Spiral Return of Orality in Connective AI
Zizi Papacharissi is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago and Department Head of Communication. She is also a university scholar and affiliate faculty with the Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published ten books and over 80 journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of 15 journals. She is the founding and current editor of the open access journal Social Media & Society. Her work has been translated into Greek, German, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish, and Persian.
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