id
	16770
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/16770
Resource template
	Book Section
Resource class
	bibo:BookSection
Title
	From Cellphones to Machine Learning. A Shift in the Role of the User in Algorithmic Writing
Creator
	Wellner, Galit
Publisher
	Springer Verlag
Date
	2018
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Writing is frequently analyzed as a mode of communication. But writing can be done for personal reasons, to remind oneself of things to do, of thoughts, of events. The cellphone has revealed this shift, commencing as a communication device and ending up as a memory prosthesis that records what we see, hear, read and think. The recordings are not necessarily for communicating a message to others, but sometimes just for oneself. Today, when machine learning algorithms read, write and transmit, a new mode of communication arises that is not centered on the human. In this chapter the various phases of modern writing are modeled according to postphenomenology. As a branch of philosophy of technology, postphenomenology offers a set of analytical tools to study technologies and our relations to them. One of its central frameworks is the scheme of “I–technology–world.” The author proposes some modifications so that the scheme can systematically model the changes in the humans users, in machine learning algorithms imbued with non-human cognition and in the environments of readers, interlocutors and contexts.
Is Part Of
	Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media
Editor
	Romele, Alberto
	Terrone, Enrico
Pages
	205–224
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/9YEK5DULitem-list

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