Romanticism with the Machine (2): Cyberromanticism, Uncanny Robots, Romantic Cyborgs, and Spooky Science

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Coeckelbergh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Algorithmic Art ◽  
Technological Practice ◽  
Contemporary Science

Chapter 5 continues constructing the “hybridity” and “fusion” narrative, but now focused on contemporary electronic ICTs. For the purpose of trying to understand the relation between romanticism and these ICTs, it constructs the working thesis that contemporary use and development of ICTs can meaningfully be interpreted as contributing to, if not completing, material romanticism’s project to marry Enlightenment and Romanticism: rather than creating new “machines”, there is an attempt to reach a synthesis of rationalism and romanticism by fusing humans and machines. The chapter reveals romanticism in the development and use of smartphones, social media, games, surveillance technology, algorithmic art, robots, transhumanist human enhancement, and other technological practices and phenomena. It is also shown how romanticism and even gothic is present in contemporary science and scientific-technological practice. It seems that with these new hybrids, technology and romanticism merge to an unprecedented extent.

How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Are Transforming Repression

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-253
Author(s):  
Steven Feldstein
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Global Index ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Data Surveillance ◽  
Big Data Technology

This chapter examines how artificial intelligence (AI) and big-data technology are reshaping repression strategies and why they are a boon for autocratic leaders. It explores two in-depth scenarios that describe potential state deploy AI and big-data techniques to accomplish political objectives. It presents a global index of AI and big-data surveillance that measures the use of these tools in 179 countries. It then presents a detailed explanation for specific types of AI and big-data surveillance: safe cities, facial recognition systems, smart policing, and social media surveillance. Subsequently, it examines China’s role in proliferating AI and big-data surveillance technology, and it reviews public policy considerations regarding use of this technology by democracies.

Religious People Are Against Scientific Technology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
Christopher P. Scheitle
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Hesc Research

There is a myth that religious people do not like technology, whether it is the Internet, social media, or medical technologies. In fact, religious people’s concerns with many technologies mirror those of nonreligious people. As for social media, for instance, religious people fear what these technologies can do to relationships. And yet religious people support these technologies for the ways they can grow, strengthen, and connect communities of faith. While religious people are not unique in their concerns about many technologies, there are a few that concern religious people, in particular: reproductive genetic technologies (RGTs), in vitro fertilization (IVF), and human embryonic stem-cell (hESC) research. Biomedical technologies, specifically those related to “human enhancement,” tend to intersect directly with faith and can cause tension with religious groups. In other words, people of faith have theological concerns about these technologies because they seem to have implications for who God is and who human beings are and what it means to have a good life.

scholarly journals Weapons of mass distraction

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-512
Author(s):  
Robin Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The Circle invites an ever closer look at the ethos of current and emerging surveillance technology. Dave Eggers’ novel foreshadowed the culminating moments in 2018, when high-powered social media platforms generated a maelstrom of controversy in the US and UK and then nothing changed. Concern over the integrity of electoral processes around the globe has risen to new heights, as privacy experts warn that unfettered growth of surveillance capitalism could change democracy forever. Far from a case of unintended consequences run amok, corporate tech executives admit that continual mining of personal data for unrestricted use by corporations and political operatives that specialise in psychological manipulation were part of the original design. The dark side of all this connectivity as highlighted by the ruckus over Cambridge Analytica places mainstream news producers squarely under the microscope. This article examines the wilderness between the goal of reporting in the public’s interest and the current role of  news organisations.

Cuban government will struggle to rein in social media

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Cuban Government ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Significance It is also creating a new ministry-level Institute for Information and Social Communication (IICS) to replace the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) and modernise the state’s communication apparatus. With social media use now widespread across Cuba, however, the prospects of either strategy defusing the government’s communication challenges look dim. Impacts Reform will be at least as much about asserting control as regaining the hearts and minds of Cubans. Clear examples of openness and fresh faces on television would help Havana to demonstrate that meaningful reform is coming. Havana will look to China for surveillance technology, but will be unable to impose its state internet management.

scholarly journals Foreshadowing the Future of Capitalism: Surveillance Technology and Digital Realism in Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 62-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Alienation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
Total View ◽  
The Future ◽  
Xu Bing

How has the development of surveillance technology and its normalized intervention into our social structures and daily lives impact our imagination of the future? Does the “total view” of the intense yet impassive gaze of surveillance cameras, combined with the mediated intimacy of social media videos, foreshadow deeper social alienation or the fulfillment of individual desire? In order to address such questions, I take the Chinese artist Xu Bing and his team’s film Dragonfly Eyes (Qingting zhi yan, 2017) and its surrounding media culture as a case study to demonstrate how surveillance footage and various modes of cinematic ontology, digital realism, and temporality work in a contemporary socio-political-medial context. Composed by Xu and a group of collaborators, Dragonfly Eyes is the only existing feature-length fiction film constructed completely from surveillance footage. As a highly reflexive film, Dragonfly epitomizes and embodies the precarious potentials of the digital future of capitalism, both invigorating and bleak, expressive and corrupt.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

Doctors employ social media

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jane Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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