AI ethics on Thursday, 31 December 2015

The book series Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality, and Cultural Techniques provides a platform for cuttingedge research in the field of media culture studies with a particular focus on the cultural impact of media technology and the materialities of communication. The series aims to be an internationally signif icant and exciting opening into emerging ideas in media theory ranging from media materialism and hardware-oriented studies to ecology, the post-human, the study of cultural tech

The editors of this volume bring together a collection of papers that, taken together, provide an interesting snapshot of current research on Human Computer Confluence (HCC). HCC stands for a particular vision of how computing devices and human beings (users) can be fruitfully combined. The term was coined some 10 years ago in an attempt to make sense of the increasingly complex technological landscape that was emerging from different interrelated research strands in Information and Communicatio