An interdisciplinary exploration of interaction and language use in the new human-machine era.
New devices do more than simply transmit language: they can alter and augment it. This blurs our conventional understanding of language and gives rise to a number of challenges-theoretical, moral, legal, and pedagogical. Language in the Human-Machine Era, edited by Dave Sayers, Maggie Glass, Helen Kelly-Holmes, and Robert Fuchs, explores the emerging features of language in this human-machine era. The contributors discuss not only the benefits of the new technologies, but also the risks and inequalities, which are often of little concern to tech companies or their shareholders. They also suggest ways forward that are more equitable and inclusive.
Contributors examine two major trends of the new era: Speaking through technology, e.g., when AI translates our words into another language in real time, in our own voice; and speaking to technology, as when we have lifelike conversations with our smart devices. Both trends have enormous consequences for our understanding of interaction and language use. The chapters all follow the same format, facilitating comparisons, for example, between the current "digital era" and the coming "human-machine era."
Contributors:
Tope Adebiyi, Mohammad Alenezi, Dorka Balogh, Štefan Beňuš, Inge Birnie, Lynne Bowker, Vincent Briva-Iglesias, Eliot Bytyçi, Luis Mauricio Calvo Rubio, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Parthena Charalampidou, Matt Coler, Alain Couillault, Adriana Dervishaj, Doris Dippold, Iker Erdocia, Robert Fuchs, Vicky Garnett, Balázs Szabolcs Gerencsér, Maggie Glass, Edlira Gugu, Tunga Güngör, Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Barbara Heinisch, Marcelo Yuji Himoro, Sviatlana Höhn, Maram Khamaiseh, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Blanka Klimova, Maarit Koponen, Petra Lea Láncos, Mandy Lau, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, Didem Leblebici, Caroline Lehr, Eve Lejot, Márta Lesznyák, Chaya Liebeskind, Miriam Lind, Netaya Lotze, Belén Lozano Sanudo, Lieve Macken, Lina Mavrina, Hugues de Mazancourt, Philipp Meer, Fanny Meunier, Bettina Migge, Sharon O'Brien, Giedré Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Antonio Pareja-Lora, Nataša Pavlovic, Maarija Pendevska, Marcel Pikhart, Martina Podboj, Fernando Prieto Ramos, Cynog Prys, Päivi Rainò, Edina Robin, Lucia Ruiz Rosendo, Melody Ann Ross, Rebekah Rousi, Mehmet Sahin, María del Mar Sánchez Ramos, Beatrice Savoldi, Burkhard Schafer, Britta Schneider, Olívia Seidl-Péch, Márta Seresi, Anna Setkowicz-Ryszka, Muhammad Shakir, Angela Soltan, Rui Sousa-Silva, Silvia Terribile, Rita Vallentin, Auli Viidalepp, and Miklós Zorkóczy.
