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.

"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