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Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms : How Digital Technologies Are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do about It.
Author
N. Just, Sine
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
©2024.
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1 online resource (231 pages)
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Contents
Front Cover
Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms: How Digital Technologies Are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It
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Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgements
1 The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind
Technologies of persuasion
We don't talk anymore
Another turn of the culture wars
I miss my pre-internet brain
Break the internet
Make disagreement good again
Kiss the specifics
2 Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication
Online-offline integration
Communicative and organizational convergence
The financialized circulation of affect
Playbour and the produsage of value in digital capitalism
You be my body for me
Organizing digital communication
3 The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere
Not another literature review
Publics are queer creatures
Subject to freedom
Information wants to be free
Calculated publics
Datafied subjects
Is Habermas on Twitter?
Only connect
No manners
What do we need the concept of publics for?
4 Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy
The Mytilene debate: a paradigm for deliberative rhetoric
Deliberative rhetoric: deciding for an uncertain future
Between deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism: situating controversia
A note on (de)contextualization
Arguing from all sides
Reviving controversia
The plight of rhetoric
Rhetoric, check your privilege
Contemporary controversies
The measure of controversial encounters
5 Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict
The mother of all online controversy
Controversies without remainder
Memetic circulation
Datafied affect
Sweet consensus
Nasty conflict
Spirals of detached entrenchment.
The revenge of transmission theory
6 Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?
ChatGPT, are there any communications?
The road less travelled
What the heck is generative AI anyway?
Sociotechnical imaginaries of AI
The work of art in the age of automation
Who owns AI art?
Does AI art hold political potential?
Decentring persuasive intent
Are digital technologies persuasive?
7 Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind
Broadening the affective repertoire
One more time with feeling
No hate, no bigotry
What's love got to do with it?
Becoming mutually vulnerable
An armour of something
I don't want your hope
Is digital circulation the master's tool?
8 Make Disagreement Good Again
There is always the other option
Like what you hate: curating controversial encounters
Since feeling is first: embodying resistance
I would prefer not to: interrupting flows
I beg to differ: introducing an ethics of contestability
References
Index.
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ISBN
9781529238365 ((electronic bk.))
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