How the Internet automates communication

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7532733
AutoresChristian Papsdorf (Chemnitz University of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume18
Fascículo9
Páginas991-1005
Data de publicação2015-02-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInformation Communication & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369118x.2015.1008539
OpenAlexW2063966746
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas23

This article looks at how Internet media bring about the automation of social communication. Whereas communication originally took place between humans, human–machine interaction is now replacing this traditional type of communication in a growing number of areas of society. This form of mediatized communication is characterized by a high degree of rationality (amongst other things), inasmuch as the applications are consequently governed by criteria of efficiency. As a result, important areas of social communication are becoming detached from subjective factors and are governed by a goal-oriented merit principle. The article identifies eight areas of automated communication, discusses five different types of rationalization (increase in efficiency, accumulation, recombination, correlation, and the adaptation of system logics from other systems), and looks at the consequences for society of this new type of Internet communication

Adaptation (eye · Epistemology · Rationality · Rationalization (economics · Social communication · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Media and Politics