diff --git a/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md b/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md index f63a183..42fd42d 100644 --- a/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md +++ b/content/Section 3 - Bots/1-introduction.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Slug: 01-s3-introduction Date: 2020-11-01 12:00 Summary: What type of bots are being made? -When we say bots, we refer to software agents which automatise certain actions and can run autonomously or semi-autonomously. [perhaps provide an example to make it more concrete to the reader] +[bridge to previous section e.g. having just explored infrastrucutral harms we now move to explore bots]When we say bots, we refer to software agents which automatise certain actions and can run autonomously or semi-autonomously. [perhaps provide an example to make it more concrete to the reader] The particular bots we are interested in for this online module are those that act as an interface between the digital platform and human users, or what [Andreas] Hepp calls communicative robots[^hepp], robots that "are defined as autonomously operating systems designed for the purpose of quasi-communication with human beings to enable further algorithmic-based functionalities – often but not always on the basis of artificial intelligence" [page numbers].