Summary: Seda Gürses, computational infrastructures & *POTs (Protective Optimization Technologies)*
Summary: *Computational infrastructures* and *POTs (Protective Optimization Technologies)*
Seda Gürses is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven. Beyond her academic work, she also collaborated with artistic initiatives including Constant vzw, Bootlab, De-center, ESC in Brussels, Graz and Berlin.
Summary: *Communicative bots*, *communicative embodiment* and *infrastructural embodiment*.
Andreas Hepp is Professor for Media and Communications at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), University of Bremen, Germany. In the paper[^paper] we mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, he distinguishes three kinds of communicative bots: artificial companions, social bots and work bots. For Hepp, communicative bots are characterised through a double embodiment: a communicative embodiment, referring to the bots' human-like representation, and an infrastructural embodiment, referring to the bots being embedded in the materiality of the infrastructure on which they are active. Thinking about the bots in terms of embodiment helps situate them in relation to digital communication infrastructures and their user base.
Andreas Hepp is Professor for Media and Communications at the ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research), University of Bremen, Germany. In the paper[^paper] we mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, he distinguishes three kinds of *communicative bots*: artificial companions, social bots and work bots. For Hepp, communicative bots are characterised through a double embodiment: a *communicative embodiment*, referring to the bots' human-like representation, and an *infrastructural embodiment*, referring to the bots being embedded in the materiality of the infrastructure on which they are active.
Thinking about the bots in terms of embodiment helps to situate them in relation to digital communication infrastructures and their user base.
We will introduce the work of Andreas Hepp through the following questions:
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* How does communication change in the presence of bots?
* What role do they play in the construction of the social world and what does this say about their relation to power relations in society?
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# Footnotes
[^paper]: Hepp, Andreas. "Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies"
Title: Question 3: How significant are communicative robots for the communicative construction of the social world and how does this relate to power relations in society?
Title: Question 3: How do bots relate to material infrastructures like platforms?
Title: Question 5: What role do they play in the construction of the social world and what does this say about their relation to power relations in society?
Summary: How do bots relate to digital infrastructures?
Darius Kazemi is a computer programmer and artist, whose work engages with bot making and self-hosting social networks. He organised the Bot Summit[^summit] in 2013, 2014 and 2016.
