Programmatic Dreams: Technographic Inquiry into Censorship of Chinese Chatbots

This project explores the recent censorship of two Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on Tencent’s popular WeChat messaging platform. Specifically, I am advancing a technographic approach in ways that give agency to bots as not just computing units but as interlocutors and informants. I s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yizhou (Joe) Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-11-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118808780