Connective AI: Social (Ro)Bots, Play, Democracy - Paperback

by Zizi A. Papacharissi (Editor)

Focusing on social robots, play, and democracy, this volume explores how AI can be used in connective ways to advance the common good and support democratic practice. This book will interest students, researchers and scholars across a variety of fields including media, communication studies and political science.

Author Biography

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.