"Machine Communication" - communication +1's new volum

communication +1 is pleased to present:

Machine Communication

*Edited by David Gunkel and Zachary McDowell*

With this special issue we explore the boundaries of communication beyond the human subject and the restrictions of humanism by considering that which is radically other - the machine. These articles seek to interrogate the opportunities and challenges that emerge around, within, and from interactions and engagements with machines of all types and varieties. By examining the full range of human-machine interactions, machine-machine interactions, or other hitherto unanticipated configurations, we believe we have assembled a collection of ground-breaking essays that push the boundaries of our discipline and probe the new social configurations of the 21st century.


Contributors include:

Zachary McDowell

David Gunkel

Andrea Guzman

Anna Nacher

John Novak

Jason Archer

Victor Mateevitsi

Steve Jones

Sun-ha Hong

Samuel Goyet

Cléo Collomb

Sandra Robinson

Lisa Tam

Rajiv Khosla

To the authors we extend our deep gratitude for their contributions. To the readers we extend our invitation for input and suggestions. The following pages begin a conversation we hope will continue. And it is to those whom have spoken we shall turn.

For free access to the issue, and all of communication +1, please visit http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/.

communication +1 is an open access journal supported by University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication

* Editor in Chief: Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

* Managing Editor: Zachary J. McDowell, University of Massachusetts Amherst

*Advisory Board*

Kuan-Hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago

Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais

Bernard Geoghegan, Coventry University, United Kingdom

Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom

Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

John Durham Peters, University of Iowa

Gil Rodman, University of Minnesota

Florian Sprenger, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

Johnathan Sterne, McGill University

Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder

Greg Wise, Arizona State University