bots-as-digital-infrapunctures/content/Section 3 - Bots/10-theoretical-perspectives-on-bots.md
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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?