![]() ![]() ![]() Nick Montfort, Author of The Truelist and other computer-generated books Twitterbots is not only a thorough study but also offers enough instruction that you, too, can learn from it how to make a machine to 'set upon a golden bough to sing / To lords and ladies of Byzantium / Of what is past, or passing, or to come.'" Read it closely and you'll discover historical, social, political, and literary contexts technical aspects of bot making from APIs to grammars to Java specifics how to understand ninjas using semantic frames and how images as well as texts can be automatically woven. "Spend a while with Twitterbots, a broad, deep, and lively book, to learn about a new art form and a rich area of computational creativity. Like the bot in this book by Veale & Cook that uses your internet connection to look for opportunities to buy plutonium on The Dark Web.” "If writing is like cooking then this new book about Twitter 'bots' is like Apple Charlotte made with whale blubber instead of butter.” These bot critiques generated at Some bots are as malevolent as their authors. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought experiment given digital form each embodies a hypothesis about the nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of automated creation. They explain how to navigate Twitter's software interfaces to program your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their generative worlds. Veale and Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter's most notable bots, from the which tweets a series of BONGs every hour to mark the time, to the delightful which finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to the disaster of “learned” conspiracy theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). In Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. This book examines the world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to the hows and whys of bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape. The next generator of content that you follow on Twitter may also be a bot. Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their own composition into the Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators the next person to follow you on Twitter or to “like” your tweets may not a person at all. ![]() The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe. If you can’t find the resource you need here, visit our contact page to get in touch.Įstablished in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.Ĭollaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. Open Access Week 2022 – Open for Climate Justice.Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. International Affairs, History, & Political Science.MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. ![]()
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