Peter Mantello
Biographic Data
| ID | 297941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Mantello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Mantello |
| SIGNATURE | MANTELLO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7421-5088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Simulated selves
Artificial intelligence systems increasingly participate in domains once considered distinctly human, including affective exchange, creativity and interpersonal communication. Yet there is limited linguistic research on how users discursively construct authenticity and creativity in their interactions with AI companions. This study addresses this gap by examining how users ascribe or deny agency, emotion and sincerity to AI partners, and how thes…
Why biosemiotics can aid post-phenomenological study of bio-informational AI
Examining trust and agency in emotionalized AI through a 4E and biosemiotic lens
From Print Capitalism to Data Capitalism in Japan
We argue that surveillance technologies, increasingly powered by artificial intelligence, translate print capitalism into data capitalism. We observe this transition as championed in Japan, a country favorable to its development given a strong techno-nationalism, by adopting Aurora Donzelli’s criticism of capitalism as a translation machine. Unlike traditional CCTV that simply records passersby in real-time, retail surveillance systems in Japan s…
Mapping the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Dataveillance Discourse in Japan
We argue that dataveillance in Japan is fueled by techno-nationalist imaginaries that promise socio-economic renaissance by strengthening digital capitalism. Japanese nationalism is based on a techno-optimist imaginary which feeds enthusiasm for digitalization. We develop this argument by observing four discursive layers of dataveillance: (1) Society 5.0 - the governmental AI and ICT blueprint, (2) mass media, (3) AI vendors, and (4) the ethical,…
Gauging public opinion of AI and emotionalized AI in healthcare
Why we need to be weary of emotional AI
Losing the information war to adversarial AI
Smart technologies and how they create the reality feared by Orwell and Huxley
Emotional AI and the future of wellbeing in the post-pandemic workplace
Machines that feel
The rise of emotional AI signals a new era in human-machine relations where intelligent machines not only feel but also feed on human emotions as statistical fodder with the goal of reshaping our behavior. Unlike many smart technologies, emotion-recognition systems sense, monitor, harvest and analyze data extracted from a person’s non-conscious or psycho-physical state, often without their knowledge or consent. As a far more invasive manner of su…
Bosses without a heart
Understanding the acceptance of emotional artificial intelligence in Japanese healthcare system
Attitude of college students towards ethical issues of artificial intelligence in an international university in Japan
Rethinking technological acceptance in the age of emotional AI
Affective computing scholarship and the rise of China
Affective computing, also known as emotional artificial intelligence (AI), is an emerging and cutting-edge field of AI research. It draws on computer science, engineering, psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to computationally model, track, and classify human emotions and affective states. While the US once dominated the field in terms of research and citation from 1995–2015, China is now emerging as a global contender in research output, cl…
Fatal portraits
For the modern-day jihadist, the digital self-portrait or, more specifically, battlefield selfie is a popular tool for identity building. Similarly to the selfies taken by non-violent practitioners of self-capture culture, the jihadist selfie represents an alternative to the Cartesian formulation of a unitary and indivisible self. Rather, it is a product of social relations and performative actions, constituted in dialogue with others through ver…
Military Shooter Video Games and the Ontopolitics of Derivative Wars and Arms Culture
The "military shooter" (MS) video game is the latest in a long line of video games that immerse the player in a fantasy world. Although the MS video game was once regarded as excessively violent, it has now become socially acceptable, as the virtues of military life have become incorporated in popular culture. That transition has taken place in part because the military has begun to work closely with the producers of MS video games, such as the "…
The machine that ate bad people
This article examines the "aesthetic" and "prescient" turn in the surveillant assemblage and the various ways in which risk technologies in local law enforcement are reshaping the post hoc traditions of the criminal justice system. The rise of predictive policing and crime prevention software illustrate not only how the world of risk management solutions for public security is shifting from sovereign borders to inner-city streets but also how the…
Legitimacy and the virtual battlefield
Although much has been written on the abilities of the first-person shooter to advance neo-orientalist themes and US imperial agendas through its aesthetics and narrative, the author argues that by exploiting the porous institutional boundaries between military planners and the video-game industry, the hyperrealist shooter becomes a formidable and formative middle ground not only in reshaping understanding of and access to the nebulous and furtiv…
Playing discreet war in the US
This article examines the War on Terror and US response strategies of discreet war through the lens of the Special Forces video game as a site of contestation between the real and the imaginary world, the nation-state and market-state, the West and the Rest. While mainstream films and news media increasingly pay homage to discreet war, the author argues that the Special Forces shooter goes a step further, by providing a participatory middle groun…
The machine that ate bad people
This article examines the "aesthetic" and "prescient" turn in the surveillant assemblage and the various ways in which risk technologies in local law enforcement are reshaping the post hoc traditions of the criminal justice system. The rise of predictive policing and crime prevention software illustrate not only how the world of risk management solutions for public security is shifting from sovereign borders to inner-city streets but also how the…
Playing discreet war in the US
This article examines the War on Terror and US response strategies of discreet war through the lens of the Special Forces video game as a site of contestation between the real and the imaginary world, the nation-state and market-state, the West and the Rest. While mainstream films and news media increasingly pay homage to discreet war, the author argues that the Special Forces shooter goes a step further, by providing a participatory middle groun…
Rethinking technological acceptance in the age of emotional AI
Understanding the acceptance of emotional artificial intelligence in Japanese healthcare system
Fatal portraits
For the modern-day jihadist, the digital self-portrait or, more specifically, battlefield selfie is a popular tool for identity building. Similarly to the selfies taken by non-violent practitioners of self-capture culture, the jihadist selfie represents an alternative to the Cartesian formulation of a unitary and indivisible self. Rather, it is a product of social relations and performative actions, constituted in dialogue with others through ver…
Legitimacy and the virtual battlefield
Although much has been written on the abilities of the first-person shooter to advance neo-orientalist themes and US imperial agendas through its aesthetics and narrative, the author argues that by exploiting the porous institutional boundaries between military planners and the video-game industry, the hyperrealist shooter becomes a formidable and formative middle ground not only in reshaping understanding of and access to the nebulous and furtiv…
Playing discreet war in the US
This article examines the War on Terror and US response strategies of discreet war through the lens of the Special Forces video game as a site of contestation between the real and the imaginary world, the nation-state and market-state, the West and the Rest. While mainstream films and news media increasingly pay homage to discreet war, the author argues that the Special Forces shooter goes a step further, by providing a participatory middle groun…
Legitimacy and the virtual battlefield
Although much has been written on the abilities of the first-person shooter to advance neo-orientalist themes and US imperial agendas through its aesthetics and narrative, the author argues that by exploiting the porous institutional boundaries between military planners and the video-game industry, the hyperrealist shooter becomes a formidable and formative middle ground not only in reshaping understanding of and access to the nebulous and furtiv…
The machine that ate bad people
This article examines the "aesthetic" and "prescient" turn in the surveillant assemblage and the various ways in which risk technologies in local law enforcement are reshaping the post hoc traditions of the criminal justice system. The rise of predictive policing and crime prevention software illustrate not only how the world of risk management solutions for public security is shifting from sovereign borders to inner-city streets but also how the…
Military Shooter Video Games and the Ontopolitics of Derivative Wars and Arms Culture
The "military shooter" (MS) video game is the latest in a long line of video games that immerse the player in a fantasy world. Although the MS video game was once regarded as excessively violent, it has now become socially acceptable, as the virtues of military life have become incorporated in popular culture. That transition has taken place in part because the military has begun to work closely with the producers of MS video games, such as the "…
Affective computing scholarship and the rise of China
Affective computing, also known as emotional artificial intelligence (AI), is an emerging and cutting-edge field of AI research. It draws on computer science, engineering, psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to computationally model, track, and classify human emotions and affective states. While the US once dominated the field in terms of research and citation from 1995–2015, China is now emerging as a global contender in research output, cl…
Fatal portraits
For the modern-day jihadist, the digital self-portrait or, more specifically, battlefield selfie is a popular tool for identity building. Similarly to the selfies taken by non-violent practitioners of self-capture culture, the jihadist selfie represents an alternative to the Cartesian formulation of a unitary and indivisible self. Rather, it is a product of social relations and performative actions, constituted in dialogue with others through ver…
Attitude of college students towards ethical issues of artificial intelligence in an international university in Japan
Rethinking technological acceptance in the age of emotional AI
Machines that feel
The rise of emotional AI signals a new era in human-machine relations where intelligent machines not only feel but also feed on human emotions as statistical fodder with the goal of reshaping our behavior. Unlike many smart technologies, emotion-recognition systems sense, monitor, harvest and analyze data extracted from a person’s non-conscious or psycho-physical state, often without their knowledge or consent. As a far more invasive manner of su…
Bosses without a heart
Understanding the acceptance of emotional artificial intelligence in Japanese healthcare system
Why we need to be weary of emotional AI
Losing the information war to adversarial AI
Smart technologies and how they create the reality feared by Orwell and Huxley
Emotional AI and the future of wellbeing in the post-pandemic workplace
Gauging public opinion of AI and emotionalized AI in healthcare
Simulated selves
Artificial intelligence systems increasingly participate in domains once considered distinctly human, including affective exchange, creativity and interpersonal communication. Yet there is limited linguistic research on how users discursively construct authenticity and creativity in their interactions with AI companions. This study addresses this gap by examining how users ascribe or deny agency, emotion and sincerity to AI partners, and how thes…
Why biosemiotics can aid post-phenomenological study of bio-informational AI
Examining trust and agency in emotionalized AI through a 4E and biosemiotic lens
From Print Capitalism to Data Capitalism in Japan
We argue that surveillance technologies, increasingly powered by artificial intelligence, translate print capitalism into data capitalism. We observe this transition as championed in Japan, a country favorable to its development given a strong techno-nationalism, by adopting Aurora Donzelli’s criticism of capitalism as a translation machine. Unlike traditional CCTV that simply records passersby in real-time, retail surveillance systems in Japan s…
Mapping the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Dataveillance Discourse in Japan
We argue that dataveillance in Japan is fueled by techno-nationalist imaginaries that promise socio-economic renaissance by strengthening digital capitalism. Japanese nationalism is based on a techno-optimist imaginary which feeds enthusiasm for digitalization. We develop this argument by observing four discursive layers of dataveillance: (1) Society 5.0 - the governmental AI and ICT blueprint, (2) mass media, (3) AI vendors, and (4) the ethical,…
Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Performing arts (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works)