mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher
in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to
announce the publication of our latest book, Sue Curry Jansen’s What Was
Artificial Intelligence?:
https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai
When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was
Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was
published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory, a book
whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it
addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that
Jansen’s sheer scope as an intellectual had few competent readers in the
communication studies discipline into which she published the book. “What
Was Artificial Intelligence?” was buried treasure. In this
mediastudies.press edition, Jansen’s prescient autopsy of AI
self-selling—the rhetoric of the masculinist sublime—is reprinted with a
new introduction. Now an open access book, What Was Artificial Intelligence?
is a message in a bottle, addressed to Musk, Bezos, and the latest generation
of AI myth-makers.
https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai
The book is available online, and as a free download in PDF, ePub, and Mobi.
The book is also available as a $5 paperback.
https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai
What Was Artificial Intelligence? appears in the Media Manifold series.
Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are
encouraged to reach out with a query:
https://www.mediastudies.press/queries
Jeff Pooley
Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College
Director, mediastudies.press
jeffpooley.com
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