Communication and control : tools, systems, and new dimensions / edited by Robert C. MacDougall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly "low-tech") as push buttons, pagers, and telemarketing systems. Contributors also investigate aspects of "remote control" related to education, organizational design, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, drones, and even binge-watching on Netflix. In line with a systems view, the collection takes up a media ecological view. This work will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in communication, new media, and technology."--Publisher's website.

Introduction -- A brief history of communication and control in animals and machines / Robert C. MacDougall -- Four dimensions of control / Robert C. MacDougall -- Panic button: thinking historically about danger, interfaces, and control-at-a-distance / Rachel Plotnick -- A waiting room without walls: paging, pagers, and the rise of mobile communication / Benjamin Morton -- Chained to the dialer, or Frederick Taylor reaches out and touches someone / Brett Lunceford -- Chatbots in the metropolis: Turing and the communicative labor of the multitude / Kevin Cummings and Cameron Kunzelman -- Knowledge management systems and remote control: noopower and the contemporary transnational corporation / Robert W. Gehl -- So many choices, so little choice: streaming media, algorithmic efficiency, and the illusion of control / Matthew Pittman and Ryan S. Eanes -- Educational policy and political action as a mechanism of remote control / Karla I. Loya and Ezekiel W. Kimball -- Mobile geospatial search and the limits of knowledge: linking application design and use in time and space / Jim E. Thatcher -- Reflections on organization, emergence, and control in sociotechnical systems / Vincenzo De Florio -- Mediascape as battlefield: networked infrastructure and smart war / Kathleen F. Oswald -- Remotely piloted vehicles, ubiquitous networks, and new manifestations of remote control in open society national security environments / R.E. Burnett -- Remotely human: the emergence of the companion-head / Madhusudan Raman.

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