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Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies

Robots, AI and Everyday Life

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Editors:
  1. James Katz

    1. Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  2. Juliet Floyd

    1. Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  3. Katie Schiepers

    1. Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  • Takes a multi-dimensional approach to understanding how people perceive the future
  • Uses both historical and contemporary frames to generate insight into future thinking
  • Draws on a variety of disciplines, from ethics and philosophy to sociology and history

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  5. Back Matter

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About this book

The volume offers multiple perspectives on the way in which people encounter and think about the future. Drawing on the perspectives of history, literature, philosophy and communication studies, an international ensemble of experts offer a kaleidoscope of topics to provoke and enlighten the reader. The authors seek to understand the daily lived experience of ordinary people as they encounter new technology as well as the way people reflect on the significance and meaning of those technologies. The approach of the volume stresses the quotidian quality of reality and ordinary understandings of reality as understood by people from all walks of life. Providing expert analysis and sophisticated understanding, the focus of attention gravitates toward how people make meaning out of change, particularly when the change occurs at the level of social technologies- the devices that modify and amplify our modes of communication with others. 

The volume is organised into three main sections: The phenomena of new communication technology in people's lives from a contemporary viewpoint; the meaning of robots and AI as they play an increasing role in people's experience and; broader issues concerning the operational, sociological and philosophical implications of people as they address a technology driven future. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA

    James Katz, Katie Schiepers

  • Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA

    Juliet Floyd

About the editors

James E. Katz is Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University’s College of Communication, USA, where he directs its Division of Emerging Media Studies. His publications on the effects of artificial intelligence, social media, mobile communication, and robot-human interaction have been internationally recognized and widely translated. Among his recent volumes are Journalism and the Search for Truth in an Age of Social Media (with Kate Mays, 2019) and Philosophy of Emerging Media (with Juliet Floyd, 2015).

Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. Her publications, translated into several languages, span the history and philosophy of logic, mathematics, language, symbolism, and new media, focusing especially on the history of twentieth century philosophy and philosophical aspects of emerging media.  Her recent books include Wittgenstein’s Annotations to Hardy’s Course of Pure Mathematics (with Felix Mühlhölzer, 2020) and Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics (2021). 

Katie Schiepers is Division Administrator for Emerging Media Studies at Boston University, USA. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Classics and Master of Science in World Heritage Conservation and is currently pursuing advanced studies in educational policy.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies

  • Book Subtitle: Robots, AI and Everyday Life

  • Editors: James Katz, Juliet Floyd, Katie Schiepers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84883-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84882-8Published: 18 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84885-9Published: 19 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84883-5Published: 01 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 239

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Digital/New Media, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities

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