Polity press nov 2026 (25 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Large language models are everywhere, from chatbots and search engines to content generators and decision-making systems. But what is actually happening when they 'speak' Discourse Machines argues that LLMs are not neutral tools but active producers of meaning, knowledge, and power. Drawing on critical theory, post-structuralism, and discourse analysis, Simon Lindgren situates LLMs within longer traditions of thinking about language, power, and knowledge. Through close readings of interactions with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other systems, he reveals how these machines reproduce truth, perform authority without understanding, simulate care without embodiment, and enact the 'death of the author' while projecting a coherent voice. As these systems become embedded in education, healthcare, journalism, and governance, the stakes could not be higher.Offering a critical perspective on generative AI, Discourse Machines is essential reading for understanding what happens when language itself is automated, and what we must do to reclaim discourse from the machines.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Avatars are everywhere - from virtual environments and social media filters to AI companions and deepfakes.In Avatars, media psychologist Rabindra Ratan draws from two decades of pioneering research to explain how avatars shape the way we think, feel, and connect in an increasingly mediated world. Through accessible theory and compelling examples, Ratan defines what avatars are across digital and physical forms, explores how people relate to them as extensions and partners of the self, and reveals how avatars influence human behavior - often in ways we do not consciously recognize. Moving from the psychology of identification and customization to the power of avatars for persuasion and influence, this book charts the past, present, and emerging future of human-avatar relationships.Combining rigorous analysis with personal insight from a career at the forefront of avatar research, this book offers a clear and engaging framework for understanding how our virtual selves are transforming not just media, but what it means to be human. Avatars is essential reading for students and researchers in Media, Communication, STS, Game Studies, Applied Psychology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Human-Computer Interaction.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In recent decades, trauma has become an organizing principle of western cultures - one of the most powerful frameworks through which individuals make sense of suffering. But what exactly is trauma And how does it shape social life This book develops a sociological theory of trauma as both lived experience and cultural category. From the micropolitics of triggers to global psychiatric discourses, the biographical disruptions of violence to the historical legacies of war, it traces how traumatic experiences surface in everyday gestures, spread across interactions, reshape lives and haunt human collectives - thereby becoming a generative social process. At the heart of this approach is the concept of the traumatic imagination: a shared disposition to experience the present through the imprint of painful pasts. Brossard explains that this imagination configures how individuals come to live with, through and against their memory and how societies mourn, cope and control.Ultimately, Trauma in Social Life calls for a renewed task for the social sciences: to treat mental health not merely as a clinical object or a cultural construct but as a site of political reflexivity and subversion.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The pogrom of October 7, 2023 signaled the end of an illusion: that of the possibility of ignoring Palestine. This ill-fated illusion first rose and then collapsed not only in Tel Aviv, but also around the world. Israel appears variously as the only possible refuge for a persecuted people, as brutal colonial enterprise, or as devastatingly vulnerable and traumatized. But what's certain is that no other state today provokes such mental fixity and intransigent polarity across the West.Gérard Araud, former French Ambassador to Israel and the United States, seeks to move beyond the declarative, black-and-white 'for or against' trap. Remembering his encounters with political figures, including Arafat, Obama, and Jared Kushner, he describes how they navigated fears and ambitions under the immovable constraints imposed by power dynamics. He also shows how the historical narrative has been weaponized by both Netanyahu's war machine and that of Hamas: history has become one more expression of unrestrained emotion, one more ideological tool, and something which is used to undermine reason. This use of history seeks not to bring reality into clearer focus, but to deny the legitimacy of the other's claims. Without a change of course, the very future of Israel is at stake.This even-handed account will renew the quality of debate surrounding a status quo which must be abandoned in favor of an empathy which extends to all victims.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From a murdered teenager being interviewed as though he were alive to a widow speaking with a chatbot made through cloning the digital relics of her late husband, AI-generated versions of the deceased are becoming uncanny yet convincing in their human-like form. Are personal memories, so central to our sense of self, lost to a future where we feel compelled to embrace he human-like comfort of bots Are the most traumatic and joyous parts of human existence forever subject to AI's manipulation of memories Memorybot explores the consequences of generative AI for the nature and survival of human memory. Hoskins argues that we are witnessing the emergence of a new societal paradigm, a battle between humans and machines in AI's shaping of reality, its erosion of anonymity and in making human forgetting impossible. As the book reveals, AI technologies are producing a new kind of memory, reflecting a past that never existed.Written by a leading international scholar of memory studies, Memorybot is a haunting read for anyone concerned about the growing influence of AI technologies on personal and public lives, and for the fields of media, psychology, sociology, history and memory studies.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The story of journalism has been one of acceleration, marked by increasing expectations to do more with less. The rise of AI offers a constitutive moment: a junction where journalists are confronting existential questions about their roles and routines. AI is transforming how we create and access information, and challenging journalism's longstanding authority.This book critically examines what AI means for journalists, audiences, and the future of news. Exploring questions about human labor and creativity, platform power and democratic accountability, and literacy and learning, the book grapples with concerns about the roles of humans and machines in media production, distribution, and consumption. The authors explore how this transformation also offers an opportunity to break away from tired routines and harness AI in ways that serve the public good.Written for students, media professionals, and anyone interested in journalism, this book makes the case for why this moment is uniquely significant for understanding news and public life.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For nature and the climate, the only thing more dangerous than war is peace - this is the startling claim made by the French philosopher Pierre Charbonnier in his new book War Ecology. Charbonnier shows that we are the heirs of an intellectual and political history which maintained that creating the conditions for peace between human beings requires exploiting nature, exchanging resources and providing sufficient prosperity for all.This idea, which can be traced back to the eighteenth century, found striking expression in the mid-twentieth century. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the development of fossil fuel infrastructures was combined with a pacifist and universalist discourse that sought to undermine the causes of war by liberating productivity. So peace, or the balance of great powers established by the United States, is largely a gift of fossil fuels, particularly oil. The fact that the climate crisis continues to gather pace today, with little effective intervention, is due not simply to a lack of political will: it also stems from the fact that the modern system of state legitimacy is rooted in the ability of each state to guarantee prosperity for its citizens, a guarantee backed up by a regime of cheap energy.In the twenty-first century, argues Charbonnier, this paradigm has become obsolete, since we must both guarantee peace and security and respect planetary limits - in other words, learn to make peace without destroying the planet. It is in this context that the possibility of a war ecology is emerging, according to which sustainability and security no longer appear as contradictory injunctions but converge in the need to move towards a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.This highly original work will be of interest to a wide readership in social and political theory, philosophy, politics, environmental studies, war and peace studies and the social sciences and humanities generally, as well as anyone concerned about war, conflict and the climate crisis.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Qing dynasty was one of the greatest empires in world history, spanning three centuries and hundreds of millions of Manchu, Mongol, and Chinese subjects throughout East and Central Asia. The People's Republic of China has built its claims to global hegemony on Qing foundations. Without understanding the Qing's rise and fall, we cannot properly interpret China's role in the modern world. This book tells that story.Peter C. Perdue examines how the Qing empire expanded to occupy a vast territory and then endured for centuries, its longevity based on ideology, cultural display, and geopolitical strategy. As the population grew, adventurers explored the frontiers and businessmen created sprawling networks of commerce. In the mid-nineteenth century, severe internal and external blows nearly brought it down. Yet it survived into the twentieth century, toppled by the doctrine of nationalism, which created the successor states of China, Taiwan, and Mongolia.Concluding with an assessment of the legacy of the Qing for modern nation-states, ethnic identities, and foreign relations, no one who wants to understand modern Asia can afford to miss this tour de force.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Civil war was the most extreme, cruel and widespread form of violence during much of the twentieth century. Its hurricane-like vortex devastated countries, split nations and destroyed communities in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. No other tool worked better for unleashing revolutions or repelling them, building nations, expelling ethnic or political minorities, securing territorial domains and economic resources, annihilating internal enemies, creating orphans and widows and generating human suffering. Since the end of the era of major international conflicts in the middle of the twentieth century, civil wars have become the most recurrent type of armed conflict in the world. With more than 20 million victims and 65 million refugees since 1945, it is difficult to dispute their primacy in the hierarchy of contemporary terror.Civil Wars traces the history of civil wars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, arguing that civil wars have played a key role in shaping the world in which we live today. It analyses a multitude of civil wars in different countries and regions of the world, including Russia, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, China, Yugoslavia, Greece, Korea, Indochina, Guatemala, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Syria. Through these case studies, the authors seek to identify elements intrinsic to civil war, such as its transnational nature, the contagion effect, recurrent conflict and extreme violence against civilians, in order to identify the cycles of civil war that shaped the twentieth century and continue to shape the world today.This book is the first to offer a global history of civil wars in the hundred years from 1917 to 2017: the century of terror and genocide, but also the century of civil wars. It will be of interest to a wide readership interested in war and conflict in the modern world, as well as to students and scholars of war and of modern history.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We are entering an era of population decline across the developed world - and beyond. Few have given serious thought to what this might mean economically. Will an ageing society and dwindling population be easily accommodated, or strike at the very heart of our prosperity Paul Morland and Philip Pilkington argue that the consequences of the coming demographic upheaval will be economically devastating. All of the assumptions of economists - that a world of above-replacement birth rates and gentle annual population growth could be taken for granted - are being upended. Once economics drove population changes, but now demography is the most fundamental force shaping our economic future. Bust addresses everything from labour and capital markets to housing and the welfare state, showing the profoundly worrying consequences of a shrinking working age population and an ageing society. Unless we take radical action to bolster birth rates, we face a future of falling living standards, high inflation and low growth.This book shines a penetrating light on one of the most ominous - and least understood - economic and social challenges of the twenty-first century. No-one who reads it will look upon public policy or the future of our society in the same way again.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Britain's economic stagnation is often blamed for a widespread sense of national crisis. But might the dysfunction of modern British society have a deeper cause James Vitali argues that our economic woes are merely symptoms of an underlying ethical disorder. Our shared prosperity rests upon a common set of moral values: responsibility, duty and stewardship. Yet these values have been fatally undermined by both left and right. Their loss amounts to the destruction of Britain's culture of ownership, a malaise which lies behind so many of Britain's biggest challenges, from our crisis in national self-confidence to the overburdened British state. Only by restoring Britain's ethical bedrock - and building the property-owning democracy it requires - can we prosper again.The Ownership Society articulates a new conservatism that offers Britons an opportunity to take responsibility for themselves, for their communities, and for their loved ones. No one who cares about the future of Britain should miss it. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many criticisms of young people in the West excoriate a self-obsessed, 'snowflake' generation and the indulgent parents and teachers who enable them, cowed by fears of upsetting or alienating the kids. But, as sociologists Jennie Bristow and Ellie Lee show, pressure to affirm young people's views of themselves is applied by wider political and cultural dynamics, which corrode organic adult-child relationships. Consequently, young people's ability to develop a rounded, grounded sense of themselves suffers - as does their relationship with the adults who care for them.The obsession with personal identity incites teenagers and emerging adults to short-circuit the dynamic process of growing up by adopting fashionable badges of self-presentation. But these stymie young people's access to the intimate intergenerational relationships that have historically provided the basis for development into maturity. Older people often find themselves positioned defensively on 'the wrong side of history', while young people's insecurity is intensified by an aggressive focus on the present.How can we restore strong ties between the generations In this sensitive, optimistic and ambitiously broad intervention, Bristow and Lee advocate a cultural narrative that supports adults' authority to say 'no' to our children, with love. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This Seminar is a turning point. It deals with a single question, to which hitherto Lacan had never responded unless obliquely: 'what is an analyst ' His reply is that an analyst is an analysand (a word which Lacan introduces to replace the term 'being analysed') who has seen the analytic experience through to its end. What is this ideal end To find out, one needs to articulate the logic of the pathway through an analysis. At its beginning, there is an unprecedented desire, which presupposes a breach, that is to say an act, in the manner of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. This act is the analysand's act, but the psychoanalytic act in the strict sense is performed by the psychoanalyst by opening up the field of 'subject supposed to know' to the analysand, in which the unconscious is deciphered. At the end, the s.s.k. dissolves, while the analyst, its support, is evacuated as the discard of the operation, like Oedipus ending his life with his eyes gouged out. The analysand, now analysed, takes over as analyst. But why, when he now knows what lies in store for him A few lessons are devoted to the logic of quantification, which Lacan starts to explore and which will later develop into his theory of sexuation.The unforeseen conclusion sees Lacan commenting in the heat of the moment on the events of May '68, which were coeval with the end of the Seminar.Jacques-Alain Miller.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Avatars are everywhere - from virtual environments and social media filters to AI companions and deepfakes.In Avatars, media psychologist Rabindra Ratan draws from two decades of pioneering research to explain how avatars shape the way we think, feel, and connect in an increasingly mediated world. Through accessible theory and compelling examples, Ratan defines what avatars are across digital and physical forms, explores how people relate to them as extensions and partners of the self, and reveals how avatars influence human behavior - often in ways we do not consciously recognize. Moving from the psychology of identification and customization to the power of avatars for persuasion and influence, this book charts the past, present, and emerging future of human-avatar relationships.Combining rigorous analysis with personal insight from a career at the forefront of avatar research, this book offers a clear and engaging framework for understanding how our virtual selves are transforming not just media, but what it means to be human. Avatars is essential reading for students and researchers in Media, Communication, STS, Game Studies, Applied Psychology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Human-Computer Interaction.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From Adam Smith's defence of the power of self-interest to modern liberal defences of free trade, we typically associate the intellectual basis of capitalism and markets with Anglo-American thinkers. In doing so we neglect a powerful alternative tradition of German origin: teutocapitalism.In this brilliant work of intellectual reconstruction, Philipp Robinson Rössner looks at some of the classic questions of economic theory - how do countries grow rich why do some nations develop whilst others remain poor how do markets work - through this unfamiliar - but powerful - lens. He shows how the 'teutocapitalists', with their distinctive emphasis on the morally, culturally and historically embedded nature of economic institutions, the importance of broad measures of public happiness, and a more production-focussed and pragmatic approach to economic statecraft, formulated an enduringly valuable alternative to British, American and French perspectives on economics.Rössner demonstrates how this tradition and its ideas represent a rich historical tool for deepening our contemporary economic understanding. No-one interested in economic history or modern debates about economic policy can afford to miss this highly original new book.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From a murdered teenager being interviewed as though he were alive to a widow speaking with a chatbot made through cloning the digital relics of her late husband, AI-generated versions of the deceased are becoming uncanny yet convincing in their human-like form. Are personal memories, so central to our sense of self, lost to a future where we feel compelled to embrace he human-like comfort of bots Are the most traumatic and joyous parts of human existence forever subject to AI's manipulation of memories Memorybot explores the consequences of generative AI for the nature and survival of human memory. Hoskins argues that we are witnessing the emergence of a new societal paradigm, a battle between humans and machines in AI's shaping of reality, its erosion of anonymity and in making human forgetting impossible. As the book reveals, AI technologies are producing a new kind of memory, reflecting a past that never existed.Written by a leading international scholar of memory studies, Memorybot is a haunting read for anyone concerned about the growing influence of AI technologies on personal and public lives, and for the fields of media, psychology, sociology, history and memory studies.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Global Financial Crisis was a shock to the shadowy world of financial regulation. Since then, the system has been fundamentally overhauled, tightening up regulations that were far too lax, and making financial institutions safer. But the system is now over-complex and the United States, in particular, is pushing back to set a new balance. Howard Davies, one of the world's leading experts on financial regulation, provides a clear and authoritative guide to this messy system, assesses what works and what doesn't, and lays out a programme of change for the next decade.As Davies explains, regulation is never a finished product. Transformed after 2008, it has had to adapt further to tackle new issues, including cryptocurrencies, the blockchain revolution, climate change, and artificial intelligence. Davies describes how the different pieces of the new regulatory jigsaw fit together, using his years of work in finance and regulation to provide crucial insights into the motivations of lawmakers and market practitioners alike. The book concludes with a bold agenda to make the system more robust, cheaper and more effective.As the appetite for regulation sours and geo-political crises produce sustained uncertainty, Global Financial Regulation is a clear-eyed look at the murky waters of international regulation. An incisive successor to Davies's much-praised guide from 2009, this book is essential reading for regulators, financial market practitioners, and students of the global financial system.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to research and development in a handful of STEM disciplines. It now actively shapes how we work, communicate, learn, and create. Understanding Artificial Intelligence offers a clear and critical guide to this transformative technology, written for students and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.Bringing together insights from philosophy, history, media studies, and communication, award-winning educator David J. Gunkel explains what AI is, how it works, and why it matters. The book introduces key concepts - from algorithms and neural networks to natural language processing and generative AI - while examining the cultural narratives and the political, social, and ethical debates that surround them. Readers are invited to explore how AI redefines creativity, authorship, responsibility, and even what it means to be human.Balancing accessible technical explanation with rigorous critical reflection, Understanding Artificial Intelligence equips readers to engage with AI technologies with confidence and discernment. It is both a map of today's rapidly evolving AI landscape and a call to participate in shaping its future - essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence will transform knowledge, culture, and everyday life.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Britain's economic stagnation is often blamed for a widespread sense of national crisis. But might the dysfunction of modern British society have a deeper cause James Vitali argues that our economic woes are merely symptoms of an underlying ethical disorder. Our shared prosperity rests upon a common set of moral values: responsibility, duty and stewardship. Yet these values have been fatally undermined by both left and right. Their loss amounts to the destruction of Britain's culture of ownership, a malaise which lies behind so many of Britain's biggest challenges, from our crisis in national self-confidence to the overburdened British state. Only by restoring Britain's ethical bedrock - and building the property-owning democracy it requires - can we prosper again.The Ownership Society articulates a new conservatism that offers Britons an opportunity to take responsibility for themselves, for their communities, and for their loved ones. No one who cares about the future of Britain should miss it.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Large language models are everywhere, from chatbots and search engines to content generators and decision-making systems. But what is actually happening when they 'speak' Discourse Machines argues that LLMs are not neutral tools but active producers of meaning, knowledge, and power. Drawing on critical theory, post-structuralism, and discourse analysis, Simon Lindgren situates LLMs within longer traditions of thinking about language, power, and knowledge. Through close readings of interactions with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other systems, he reveals how these machines reproduce truth, perform authority without understanding, simulate care without embodiment, and enact the 'death of the author' while projecting a coherent voice. As these systems become embedded in education, healthcare, journalism, and governance, the stakes could not be higher.Offering a critical perspective on generative AI, Discourse Machines is essential reading for understanding what happens when language itself is automated, and what we must do to reclaim discourse from the machines. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book by the leading political thinker and philosopher Sueli Carneiro examines how race operates in Brazilian society and why myths of racial democracy have so much staying power in the country despite the many ideological and cultural shifts. To understand this, Carneiro develops Foucault's concepts of biopower and dispositif and links them with Charles W. Mills's writings on the racial contract, creating the 'dispositif of raciality.' Carneiro argues that this concept operates through, on the one hand, 'epistemicide,' the process whereby Black people are invalidated as knowing subjects, and, on the other, a complicity among white people in relation to the social subordination and elimination of Black people.As with all dispositifs, however, the dispositif of raciality possesses its own resistance, and Carneiro also addresses Black resistance, understood through the voices and testimonies of insurgents against subordination and epistemicide. Their words reveal that it is from the strength of self-esteem, the recognition of their own autonomy, and the triumph of memory and collective action that the sap of resistance is extracted. It is only through collective struggle, where the care of self and of others becomes emancipatory, that the dispositif of raciality can be confronted.Hailed as one of the most important works of political philosophy written in Brazil, this book sheds new light on the mechanisms through which racial regimes reproduce themselves and how these patterns might be broken. It will be of great value to students and scholars of Brazil, Latin America, and Black studies and it will appeal to anyone interested in questions of race, racism, and the legacies of colonialism. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cities are now on the front line of dangers associated with the climate crisis, health emergencies, uncontrolled artificial intelligence, escalating warfare, growing authoritarianism and capitalist profligacy. This is especially so for their unprotected populations who, in large numbers, now face a dire future of precarity as powerful elites seek to turn urban assets to their advantage in confronting an uncertain future. For the vast majority of people living in cities, the future is one of foreclosure - a future of dispossession and impoverishment that is lacking a horizon of hope.What pathways remain open for cities to avert a future of foreclosure for people leading modest lives in modest neighbourhoods To answer this question, this book looks to the popular practices and knowledges that exist within urban communities and neighbourhoods, finding within them elements that are potentially reparative and curative. Here the engagement with time is different, involving repertoires of horizontal relations, affinities of place and restive knowledge capable of making something out of nothing, of bending adversity towards other goals. Here, rich yet neglected ecologies of urban inhabitation - with all their wiles and improvisations - emerge as the ground of future-making. The book offers a body of concepts to encapsulate this threatened yet resistant urbanism, exemplifies its workings in the streets of Kinshasa, Lagos, Mexico City and Naples, and outlines an infrastructural and aesthetic politics to bring out its potential, thereby enabling another future to shine through urban foreclosure.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread belief that prisons can be improved in a socially progressive way. Even today, 'model prisons' are being built that seek to fix the shortcomings and failures of their predecessors, as if past failures were due to a lack of imagination, determination, or resources.The aim of creating model prisons is not new: it dates back to the early nineteenth century. Ranging from England to Switzerland and Spain, from Russia to China and India, Carceral Utopia documents a rich, global history of ambitious efforts to create model prisons - places of confinement initially lauded for their progressive ideals but later revealed as fiascos.At the end of this journey through time and space, it will not suffice merely to highlight the gap between plans and realities, or even to dispel the illusion that model prisons could not live up to their claims. We need to ask why, despite so many failures, these institutions are still being built today. Might their many obvious shortcomings conceal a covert success.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many criticisms of young people in the West excoriate a self-obsessed, 'snowflake' generation and the indulgent parents and teachers who enable them, cowed by fears of upsetting or alienating the kids. But, as sociologists Jennie Bristow and Ellie Lee show, pressure to affirm young people's views of themselves is applied by wider political and cultural dynamics, which corrode organic adult-child relationships. Consequently, young people's ability to develop a rounded, grounded sense of themselves suffers - as does their relationship with the adults who care for them.The obsession with personal identity incites teenagers and emerging adults to short-circuit the dynamic process of growing up by adopting fashionable badges of self-presentation. But these stymie young people's access to the intimate intergenerational relationships that have historically provided the basis for development into maturity. Older people often find themselves positioned defensively on 'the wrong side of history', while young people's insecurity is intensified by an aggressive focus on the present.How can we restore strong ties between the generations In this sensitive, optimistic and ambitiously broad intervention, Bristow and Lee advocate a cultural narrative that supports adults' authority to say 'no' to our children, with love.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The story of journalism has been one of acceleration, marked by increasing expectations to do more with less. The rise of AI offers a constitutive moment: a junction where journalists are confronting existential questions about their roles and routines. AI is transforming how we create and access information, and challenging journalism's longstanding authority.This book critically examines what AI means for journalists, audiences, and the future of news. Exploring questions about human labor and creativity, platform power and democratic accountability, and literacy and learning, the book grapples with concerns about the roles of humans and machines in media production, distribution, and consumption. The authors explore how this transformation also offers an opportunity to break away from tired routines and harness AI in ways that serve the public good.Written for students, media professionals, and anyone interested in journalism, this book makes the case for why this moment is uniquely significant for understanding news and public life.…