Table of Contents

List of Figures – List of Tables – Preface – Acknowledgments – Andrea L. Guzman: Introduction: "What Is Human-Machine Communication, Anyway?" – Autumn P. Edwards: Animals, Humans, and Machines: Interactive Implications of Ontological Classification – Eleanor Sandry: Aliveness and the Off-Switch in Human-Robot Relations – Leslie M. Fritz: Child or Product? The Rhetoric of Social Robots – Chad Edwards/Brett Stoll/Autumn P. Edwards/Patric R. Spence/Andrew Gambino: "I’ll Present to the Human": Effects of a Robot Evaluator on Anticipatory Public Speaking Anxiety – Matthew Lombard: Presence Past and Future: Reflections on 25 Years of Presence Technology, Scholarship, and Community – S. Austin Lee/Yuhua (Jake) Liang: Theorizing Verbally Persuasive Robots – Christoph Lutz/Aurelia Tamò: Communicating With Robots: ANTalyzing the Interaction Between Healthcare Robots and Humans With Regards to Privacy – Terje Colbjørnsen: My Algorithm: User Perceptions of Algorithmic Recommendations in Cultural Contexts – Patric R. Spence/David Westerman/Xialing Lin: A Robot Will Take Your Job. How Does That Make You Feel? Examining Perceptions of Robots in the Workplace – Sakari Taipale/Leopoldina Fortunati: Communicating With Machines: Robots as the Next New Media – David J. Gunkel: Ars Ex Machina: Rethinking Responsibility in the Age of Creative Machines – Charles Ess: Ethics in HMC: Recent Developments and Case Studies – Volume Editor – Contributors – Index.

About the Author

Andrea L. Guzman is an assistant professor of communication at Northern Illinois University where her research focuses on human-machine communication and artificial intelligence, the automation of journalism, and media representations of intelligent technologies.