Title: Theoretical perspectives on Bots
Slug: 10-s3-communicative-bots
Date: 2020-11-01 12:10


Andreas Hepp is a professor of media and communications,

We will introduce the work of Andreas Hepp through the following questions:

* What are communicative bots and why are they important to study now?
* What main types of communicative bots are there?
* How do bots relate to material infrastructures like platforms?
* 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?