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    Artificial Intelligence: Selected Books

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Akpan's with a photograph of a satellite receiver and white text on teal background; Arnold and Tilton's with white text over repeated red, blue, and green pixelated images; Baer and Oever's with white text on a green banner over a photo of an eye; Beer's with white text on a red background over many dots connected by intersecting neural pathways; and Belisle's with a photograph of a man behind a grid with an early electronic technology.

    Akpan, Unwana Samuel. Educational Broadcasting in Nigeria in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Arnold, Taylor, and Lauren Tilton. Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images. MIT Press, 2023.

    Baer, Nicholas, and Annie van den Oever, eds. Technics: Media in the Digital Age. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

    Beer, David. The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing. Bristol University Press, 2023.

    Belisle, Brooke. Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation. University of California Press, 2024.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Blair, et al's with navy and orange text arranged like a timeline over a beige background; Bonini and Magaudda's with white text on blue and yellow backgrounds and an image of a white plastic android wearing headphones; Danesi's with white and purple text over an grey and white abstract background and a purple banner; Denson's with black text blocked over white on top of an green, blue, and yellow abstract blown-glass like pattern; and Dhaliwal, et al's with black text on white over a photograph of black birds on a beach.

    Blair, Ann, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton, eds. Information: A Short History. Princeton University Press, 2024.

    Bonini, Tiziano, and Paolo Magaudda. Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Danesi, Marcel. AI-Generated Popular Culture: A Semiotic Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Denson, Shane. Post-Cinematic Bodies. meson press, 2023.

    Dhaliwal, Ranjodh Singh, Théo Lepage-Richer, and Lucy Suchman. Neural Networks. meson press, 2024.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Esposito's with black and teal text over a photograph of an sculptural piece in a museum with geometric shapes reflected in mirrors; Filimowicz's with black text on a white banner over a navy and grey city map grid; Freedman's with yellow text over a green lawn on which a robot dog plays with a ball; Heras's with white text on a black background including a prismatic circular design; Jaillant's black text on a white background.

    Esposito, Elena. Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence. MIT Press, 2022.

    Filimowicz, Michael, ed. Deep Fakes: Algorithms and Society. Routledge, 2022.

    Freedman, Eric. Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media. Routledge, 2023.

    Heras, Daniel Chávez. Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

    Jaillant, Lise, ed. Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitized Archival Collections. Bielefeld University Press, 2022.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Jordan's with white and red text on a background full of thin blue and red vertical bars; Lotz's with red and black text on a white background below a laptop that's fashions liked a miniature movie theater; Matzner's white text on a purple background; McQuillan's white and yellow text over an abstract, blue neural network design; and Mitra's with yellow, stylized text on a brown background around an abstract floral image.

    Jordan, John M. The Rise of the Algorithms: How YouTube and TikTok Conquered the World. Penn State University Press, 2024.

    Lotz, Amanda D. Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand. Polity Press, 2022.

    Matzner, Tobias. Algorithms: Technology, Culture, Politics. Routledge, 2024.

    McQuillan, Dan. Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Bristol University Press, 2022.

    Mitra, Srimoyee, ed. Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data. University of Michigan Press, 2024.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for five books including Molloy, et al's with white on a black background around a photograph of two deer in the snow; Murphy's with white on a black background above a film still of a woman resting her head on the shoulder a large robot; Navas's with white on an abstract navy background with yellow curved lines; Neuman, et al's with white text on a black background under a multicolored strip on top; and Parks, et al's with white text over a zoomed in colorfully tinted photograph of a computer chip.

    Molloy, Missy, Pansy Duncan, and Claire Henry. Screening the Posthuman. Oxford University Press, 2023.

    Murphy, Paula. AI in the Movies. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

    Navas, Eduardo. The Rise of Metacreativity: AI Aesthetics After Remix. Routledge, 2023.

    Neuman, Yair, Marcel Danesi, and Dan Vilenchik. Using AI for Dialoguing with Texts: From Psychology to Cinema and Literature. Routledge, 2023.

    Parks, Lisa, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder, eds. Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations. University of Illinois Press, 2023.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for four books including Petersen's with white text and blue and yellow accents over a grey background; Pink, et al's with white and red text over an orange background and a photograph of a cracked phone screen with miniature astronaut figurines on it; Przegalinska's with white text on a black background and an abstracted line drawing of two intersecting human heads and a cosmic-looking glow; and Rahman's with black, red, and white text in over an illustration of silhouetted workers inside a dome.

    Petersen, Jennifer. How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech. Duke University Press, 2022.

    Pink, Sarah, Martin Berg, Deborah Lupton, and Minna Ruckenstein, eds. Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies. Routledge, 2022.

    Przegalinska, Aleksandra, and Tamilla Triantoro. Converging Minds: The Creative Potential of Collaborative AI. Routledge, 2024.

    Rahman, Hatim A. Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers. University of California Press, 2024.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for four books including Rettberg's with teal and yellow text on a white background and the image of a large mechanical eye; Richardson's with white text on a black background and an image of glass droplets or icicles; Romele's with black text on a white banner over a green mechanical schematic; and Shobeiri and Westgeest's with yellow and white text on a grey background around a distorted photograph of a face.

    Rettberg, Jill Walker. Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World. Polity Press, 2023.

    Richardson, Michael. Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World. Duke University Press, 2024.

    Romele, Alberto. Digital Habitus: A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence. Routledge, 2024.

    Shobeiri, Ali, and Helen Westgeest, eds. Virtual Photography: Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality. transcript Verlag, 2024.

    Alt-text: Book cover images for four books including Sim's with white text over a photograph of a person sitting in an empty movie theater; Van Es and Verhoeff's white text on a red cutout over a out of focus photograph of people walking; Wosk's with white text over black and an photograph of a partial close-up of the face of an artificial woman; and Zylinska's with white, grey and red text over an abstract grey, cloudy image intercut by horizontal stripes.

    Sim, Gerald. Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy. Routledge, 2025.

    Van Es, Karin, and Nanna Verhoeff, eds. Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture. Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

    Wosk, Julie. Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females. Indiana University Press, 2024.

    Zylinska, Joanna. The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI. MIT Press, 2023.

    Artificial Intelligence: Selected Journal Articles

    Ball, Andrew J. “Algorithmic Aesthetics: Bodies and Subjects in the Era of Big Data.” Screen Bodies 7, no. 2 (December 2022): v-vi.

    Baloch, Rizwan-Bashir, Abul Hassan, and Ali Ab Ul Hassan. “‘You Are an AI and You Know a Lot More than Humans’: A Semiotic Discourse Analysis of the World’s First AI TV Show.” Communication & Society 37, no. 3 (June 2024): 273–89.

    Bender, Stuart Marshall. “Coexistence and creativity: Screen media education in the age of artificial intelligence content generators.” Media Practice and Education 24, no. 4 (May 2023): 351-66.

    Boutet de Monvel, Violaine. “Cybernetic subjectivities on a loop: From video feedback to generative AI.” NECSUS (December 11, 2023): online.

    Brammer, Rebekah. “Welcome to the Machine: Artificial Intelligence on Screen.” Screen Bodies 7, no. 2 (December 2022): 68-79.

    Chi, Seung-Hack. “Cinematic Meta-Mechanics: Anxieties Surrounding Artificial Intelligence in Early Science Fiction.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video XL, no. 8 (Nov-Dec 2023): 1035-54.

    Cordeiro, Veridiana Domingos, and Fabio Cozman. “Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Knowledge.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Everyday Digital Life, edited by Hopeton S. Dunn, Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu, and Laura Robinson, 23–35. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Depounti, Iliana, Paula Saukko, and Simone Natale. “Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend.” Media, Culture & Society 45, no. 4 (2023): 720-36.

    Farkas, Boglárka Angéla. “Pandora’s Myth and Cultural Trauma in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina.” Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Film and Media Studies 24 (2023): 203–16.

    Fuica, Beatriz Tadeo, and Arthur Lezer. “From still to moving images and vice versa: Analysing technological cycles and the use of AI to study cinema history.” NECSUS (December 11, 2023): online.

    Gaboury, Jacob. “Queer Affects at the Origins of Computation.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61, no. 4 (2022): 169–74.

    Gamez, David. “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence as Philosophy: Machine Consciousness and Intelligence.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, edited by Dean A. Kowalski, Chris Lay, and Kimberly S. Engels. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Gelly, Christophe. “Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049.” In ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve, edited by Jeri English and Marie Pascal, 161–77. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

    Grinnell, Jason David. “Ex Machina as Philosophy: Mendacia Ex Machina (Lies from a Machine).” In The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, edited by Dean A. Kowalski, Chris Lay, and Kimberly S. Engels, 1025–42. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Habes, Mohammed, Amal Hassan Alhazmi, Mokhtar Elareshi, and Razaz Waheeb Attar. “Understanding the Relationship between AI and Gender on Social TV Content Selection.” Frontiers in Communication 9 (2024).

    Hicks, Michael Townsen, James Humphries and Joe Slater. “ChatGPT is bullshit.” Ethics and Information Technology 26, no. 38 (2024): online.

    Islam, Monirul. “Artificial Intelligence in Indian Films: Anukul and AI Ethics.” Short Film Studies XII, no. 2 (2022): 183-92.

    Kaluza, Jernej. “Far-Reaching Effects of the Filter Bubble, the Most Notorious Metaphor in Media Studies.” AI & Society 38, no. 4 (2023): 1391–93.

    Kapur, Anandana, and Nagma Sahi Ansari. “Coding Reality: Implications of AI for Documentary Media.” Studies in Documentary Film XVI, no. 2 (2022): 174-85.

    Kidd, Abby Lauren. “Loneliness and Love: The Potential of Human-AI Relations as Explored by Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema.” Screen Bodies 7, no. 2 (December 2022): 89-108.

    Kim, Jihoon. “What You See from These Survival Games Is What Machines Get and Know: Squid Game, Surveillance Capitalism, and Platformized Spectatorship.” International Journal of Communication 18 (2024): 131–47.

    Klatt, Tyler. “The Streaming Industry and the Great Disruption: How Winning a Golden Globe Helps Amazon Sell More Shoes.” Media, Culture & Society 44, no. 8 (2022): 1541–58.

    Laukyte, Migle. “Artificial Intelligence and Hate Speech.” In Minorities, Free Speech and the Internet, edited by Oscar Pérez de la Fuente, Alexander Tsesis, Jędrzej Skrzypczak, 153–63. Routledge, 2023.

    Marghitu, Stefania, and Jennifer O'Meara. “Seamful Sutures: Gender Exploration and Identity Expression Using Augmented Reality Facial Filters.” Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 4, no. 1 (2024): online.

    Marshall, Kingsley. “Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049.” In ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve, edited by Jeri English and Marie Pascal, 178–93. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

    Mcnamara, Robert. “Virtual Representations and Their Ethical Implications.” Baltic Screen Media Review 11 (2023): 198–214.

    Mihailova, Mihaela. “To Dally with Dalí: Deepfake (Inter)faces in the Art Museum.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 27, no. 4 (2021): 882-98.

    Morgan, Cat, and Sarah Hewitt. “Algorithmic Bias in Digital Space: Twitter’s Complicity in Gender-Based Violence.” In Geographies of Gender-Based Violence: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, edited by Hannah Bows and Bianca Fileborn, 119–32. Bristol University Press, 2022.

    Nader, Karim, Paul Toprac, Suzanne Scott, and Samuel Baker. “Public understanding of artificial intelligence through entertainment media.” AI & Society 39, no. 2 (2024): 713-26.

    O'Meara, Jennifer, and Cáit Murphy. “Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 29, no. 4 (2023): 1070-96.

    Pajkovic, Niko. “Algorithms and taste-making: Exposing the Netflix Recommender System's operational logics.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 28, no. 1 (2022): 214-35.

    Peters, Christine Reeh. “Film as Artificial Intelligence: Jean Epstein, Film-Thinking and the Speculative-Materialist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy.” Film-Philosophy XXVII, no. 2 (June 2023): 151-172.

    Ponder, Monica L., Trayce Leak, and Kalema E. Meggs. “Deepfakes as Misinformation: The Next Frontier of Sports Fandom.” In Black Communication in the Age of Disinformation: DeepFakes and Synthetic Media, edited by Kehbuma Langmia, 73-87. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

    Raposo, Vera Lúcia. “When facial recognition does not ‘recognise’: erroneous identifications and resulting liabilities.” AI & Society 39 (2024): 1857-69.

    Reynolds, CJ, and Blake Hallinan. “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube.” New Media & Society 26, no. 9 (August 2024): 5107-29.

    Rifeser, Judith, and Irina Herrschner. “Work It, Robot!: Exploring Forced Choices of Femininity in I’m Your Man [Ich bin dein Mensch] (Maria Schrader, Germany, 2021)”. In Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism, edited by Ellie Tomsett, Nathalie Weidhase, and Poppy Wilde, 305-24. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Sacks, Abby. “The Face of the Future: An Ethical Examination of Lucrecia Martel's AI.” Screen Bodies 7, no. 2 (December 2022): 80-88.

    Salvaggio, Eryk. “How to read an AI image: Toward a media studies methodology for the analysis of synthetic images.” IMAGE: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft 19, no. 1 (2023): 83-99.

    Scott, Paul. “‘On n’est pas dans Black Mirror’: Ambivalent Optimism in Osmosis.” French Screen Studies 24, no. 1 (2022): 52-70.

    Slater, Avery. “Chatbots: Cybernetic Psychology and the Future of Conversation.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61, no. 4 (Summer 2022): 181-87.

    Spöhrer, Markus. “A History of Disability and Voice-Enabled Gaming from the 1970s to Intelligent Personal Assistants.” In Disability and Video Games: Practices of En-/Disabling Modes of Digital Gaming, edited by Markus Spöhrer and Beate Ochsner, 73-116. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

    Wanzo, Rebecca. “The Other Replacement Theory: Labor and the AI Film.” Film Quarterly 77, no. 1 (Fall 2023): 81-85.

    Dedicated Forum in a Journal:

    Erpelding, Craig, Jack Beck, J. D. Swerzenski, and Thomas Brecheisen. “Forum on Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of Film and Video 76, no. 1 (Spring 2024): 44-55.

    Including Craig Erpelding, “ChatGPT as a Development and Scriptwriting Tool,” Jack Beck, “The Cinematic AI as a Chion voice–body Duality,” J. D. Swerzenski, “The AI editor—Adobe's Reimagining and Deskilling of Video Production Practice;” and Thomas Brecheisen, “Exploring the Potential of AI Tools in Film Education—Benefits, Challenges, and Applications.”

    Artificial Intelligence: Podcasts and Video Essays by/with Film and Media Scholars

    Clyde, Austin. “Jennifer Petersen, ‘How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech’.” New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, April 14, 2022.

    Gessler, Christina. “‘Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World’: An Interview with Meredith Broussard.” The Academic Life, September 26, 2024.

    McGowan, Nadia. “Cities of Ibero-America as seen by Artificial Intelligence.” Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays 12, no. 2 (2023).

    Melcher, Miranda. “Gerald Sim, ‘Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy’.” New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, October 3, 2024.

    Niewenhuis, Reuben. “James Steinhoff, ‘Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry’.” New Books in Critical Theory, July 27. 2022.

    “Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75.” UConn PopCast, October 23, 2024.

    Dedicated Video Essay Theme Week:

    Rossouw, Martin P. and Rick De Villiers, curators. In Media Res Theme Week: ChatGPT and the Specters of Authorship, May 15, 2023-May 21, 2023.

    Including Martin P. Rossouw, “Of Chatbots and Crackpots: ChatGPT as Crisis of the Image;” Steven Connor, “Defection;” Virginia Kuhn, “Who Owns Language? ChatGPT: Biases, Blind Spots and Silicon Valley;” Eduardo Navas, “GPTs’ Dependence on Appropriation and Remix: Forethoughts about Speed and Creativity;” Rick De Villiers, “ChatGPTlön, or Prompts towards a Supreme Fiction;” and Navid Darvishzadeh, “Six Brief Responses by ChatGPT.”

    Artificial Intelligence: Public Writing Online by Scholars

    Arguedas, Amy Ross and Nic Newman. “People are worried about the media using AI for stories of consequence, but less so for sports and entertainment.” The Conversation, June 19, 2024.

    Chu, Haoran and Sixiao Lu. “Your next favorite story won’t be written by AI – but it could be someday.” The Conversation, October 24, 2024.

    Crockett, Julien. “How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell.” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 31, 2024.

    De Geest, Julia, Zoe Tomlinson, and Carol Stabile. “Toward an Inclusive Artificial Intelligence: The Ms. Q&A With Gabriela de Queiroz.” Ms. magazine, March 13, 2023.

    Del Favero, Dennis, Michael J. Ostwald, and Yang Song. “A new immersive cinema is helping firefighters to better prepare for megafires.” The Conversation, September 29, 2024.

    Dodd, Savannah. “AI is just one of the thorny issues facing photography – here’s how the industry can prioritise ethics.” The Conversation, October 21, 2024.

    Finn, Ed. “It's All Transmedia Now.” Pop Junctions, April 22, 2024.

    Jackson, Philip. “Future of TV: we’re putting new personalised features into shows using an ethical version of AI.” The Conversation, March 7, 2022.

    Keilbach, Judith and Linda Kopitz. “Opening up, closing down: An interview with Lisa Parks on Media Backends.” NECSUS, August 5, 2024.

    Lees, Dominic. “Deep Fake Neighbour Wars: ITV’s comedy shows how AI can transform popular culture.” The Conversation, January 27, 2023.

    Mihailova, Mihaela. “Automated Animation: Where Craft Goes to AI.” Film Quarterly Forum, April 5, 2023.

    Mihailova, Mihaela. “Ships in a Coffee Cup, Tempest in a Teapot.” Animation Studies 2.0, June 11, 2024.

    Mitchell, W.J.T. “From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 22, 2023.

    Mithani, Jasmine. “Trump Using AI Images of Taylor Swift Highlights a New Era of Election Disinformation.” Ms. magazine, August 22, 2024.

    Narayan, AD, Angelique Nairn, Duncan Caillard, and Justin Matthews. “AI is creeping into the visual effects industry – and it could take the human touch out of film and TV.” The Conversation, October 15, 2024.

    Nel, François. “Should the media tell you when they use AI to report the news? What consumers should know.” The Conversation, November 14, 2023.

    Renzella, Jake and Vlada Rozova. “The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister.” The Conversation, May 19, 2024.

    Sobande, Francesca. “Dove’s latest ‘Real Beauty’ drive – and why AI will be harder to ditch than it thinks.” The Conversation, May 8, 2024.

    Stabile, Carol and Maya Rios. “The Lack of Women Data Scientists Hurts Artificial Intelligence.” Ms. magazine, January 19, 2023.

    Watts, Tom F.A. “The Terminator at 40: this sci-fi ‘B-movie’ still shapes how we view the threat of AI.” The Conversation, October 24, 2024.

    Wosk, Julie. “What Happens When Sex Dolls Can Talk?” Ms. magazine, May 23, 2024.

    Xu, Botao. “The Fight Between Liberal Arts and STEM Majors.” Pop Junctions, March 15, 2023.