Technologies advance and evolve in ways that outpace how we analyze and understand them academically. As scholars carefully consider the micro-, meso-, and macro-level influences of technology on the human condition, the technologies themselves are innovated and diffused rapidly.
Here, provocations from established and early career scholars ponder the ways in which we can generate, challenge, and accelerate our understanding of emerging technologies. Chapters critically probe these technologiesboth novel forms of existing technology or nascent and even speculative technologiesby summarizing and offering historical context to the "state of the art" regarding what we currently know, critiquing and discussing current and anticipated knowledge gaps, and provoking others to creatively advance on these gaps.
This volume provides a checkpoint for the status of theorizing around emerging technologies, and divining solutions for refining our approaches to studying these technologies.
Technologies advance and evolve in ways that outpace how we analyze and understand them academically. Here, provocations from established and early career scholars ponder ways in which we can generate, challenge, and accelerate our understanding of emerging technologies.
Nicholas David Bowman: The Purpose of these Provocations Matthew
Klein/Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn: The Utility of Presence in Communication
Scholarship Haley Hatfield: Radicalizing Social Virtual Realities Miguel
Barreda-Įngeles/Tilo Hartmann/Nicholas David Bowman: Merging Presence and
Narrative Engagement: Is VR Storytelling the Response to the Challenges of
Climate Change Communication? Tony Liao: Startup Supernovas: Lessons
Learned from the Rapid Rise and Demise of the Next Big Augmented Reality
Solution Jaime Banks: The Perceived Robot Mind: Considerations and
Directions for Meaning-Making Between Humans and Machines Jessica M.
Szczuka/Marco Dehnert: Sexualized Robots: Use Cases, Normative Debates, and
the Need for Research Julienne A. Greer: All the Worlds a Stage: Health/Art
Techniques for Humans and Robots Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen/Valerie Yu: Emerging
Issues in Video Games and Live Streaming Andrew Phelps/Mia Consalvo/Kelly
Boudreau/Nicholas David Bowman: Perspectives on Microstreaming: Labor,
Interactivity and Authenticity Christine L. Cook: Creative Media Misuse:
Trolling and Cybercrime in Competitive and Casual Gaming David
Westerman/Nicholas David Bowman: On the Emergence of Cyborgic Face-to-Face
Communication: Augmented Reality, Augmented Sociality, and Extra- Dyadic Cues
Bridget Rubenking: Second-Screening and Streaming: Determining the Relevant
Affordances of Changing Television Viewing Behaviors Notes on Contributors
Index.
NICHOLAS DAVID BOWMAN, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. His research focuses on the cognitive, emotional, physical, and social demands of interactive media. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has faculty affiliations in Canada, Mexico, and Taiwan.
