Networked Self and Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience

Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, including Affective Publics, A Private Sphere, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (Routledge, 2010), and over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. She is the founding and current editor of the open access journal Social Media and Society.

"A vital collection. The Networked Self series has led the way in opening up complex issues of identity and selfhood in our contemporary moment. This book brings us right to the critical forefront, by tackling questions of bots, cyborgs, VR and artificial intelligence with a brilliant group of scholars."-Kate Crawford, Distinguished Research Professor, New York University, and co-founder of the AI Now Institute "This collection is at its best where it offers the reader resources with which to engage the trope of the ‘networked self’ in ways that question received technological narratives. To do so involves attending to the real consequences of digitally-enabled artifacts and infrastructures, while challenging their pervasive and ongoing mystification." -Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK

• IntroductionZizi PapacharissiThe Robot Dog Fetches for Whom?Judith DonathSelf in the loop: bits, patterns, and pathways in the Quantified SelfNatasha Dow SchüllPosthuman Futures: Connecting/Disconnecting the Networked (Medical) Self Laura ForlanoOther Things: AI, Robots and SocietyDavid J. Gunkel Taking social machines beyond the ideal humanlike otherEleanor SandryBeyond extraordinary: Theorizing artificial intelligence and the self in daily lifeAndrea L. Guzman Agency in the digital age: Using symbiotic agency to explain human-technology interaction Gina Neff and Peter NagyThe Immersive VR Self: Performance, Embodiment and Presence in Immersive Virtual Reality EnvironmentsRaz Schwartz and William SteptoeWriting the body of the paper: Three new materialist methods for examining the socially mediated bodyKatie Warfield and Courtney DemoneClones and cyborgs: Metaphors of artificial intelligenceJessa LingelHuman-bot Ecologies Douglas Guilbeault and Joel Finkelstein AI, the persona, and rightsTamara ShepherdUntitled, no.1 (Human Augmentics)Steve Jones