[Air-L] EXTENSION -- Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project

Tue Sep 10 05:00:00 PDT 2024

Extension to submit to the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project -
New Deadline: Sept. 27th, 2024. See the call below:

Communication and media research is expanding to include artificial
intelligence and robotics, and this broadening of the study of
communication also has extended to the classroom. Scholars who are
integrating human-machine communication into their courses are invited to
participate in the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project by Andrea
L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University, and Jason E. Archer, Michigan
Technological University.

The  purpose of the project is two-fold: First, we aim to study how
scholars are conceptualizing human-machine communication and incorporating
it as a subject of study within higher education . Second, we want to offer
scholars the opportunity to voluntarily share and access HMC syllabi to
support education in this emerging area.

The research portion of the project focuses on how educators are
integrating aspects of human-machine communication into courses at the
undergraduate (associate, bachelor’s) and graduate (master’s, PhD) levels.
Human-machine communication can be defined as meaning-making among humans
and communicative machines (i.e. smart assistants, robots, generative AI,
automated journalism) and the implications of such technologies for self,
culture, and society. Its study draws from and has applications to the full
realm of communication and media research and, in particular, encompasses
aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), human-robot interaction (HRI),
human-agent interaction (HAI) and critical and cultural approaches
regarding technologies articulated as communicators. (See below for
additional HMC resources.)

For the study, we are seeking syllabi for courses that focus primarily on
human-machine communication and its applications as well as courses in
which at least 25% of the content covered is dedicated to some aspect of
human-machine communication and/or its application.

To support teaching and learning, we are also creating a public repository
of HMC syllabi submitted for this project. We are asking submitters whether
they would like their syllabi to be included in a publicly-accessible
online location to assist others in the development of HMC-related courses.
Inclusion of an individual’s syllabus in the public repository is
completely voluntary and does not affect their ability to participate in
the research project. The researchers will destroy all syllabi not included
in the repository after the completion of the research project. The
repository will be made publicly available at a future date when all
syllabi have been received and reviewed.

The deadline to submit your syllabi to the project is September 27th, 2024.
Please follow all directions on how to submit to the project that can be
found below and at https://andrealguzman.net/hmcsyllabusproject.

You can also contact the researchers directly: Andrea L. Guzman,
alguzman at niu.edu, Jason E. Archer, jearcher at mtu.edu.

Thank you.

Andrea & Jason

Participation Instructions

Required: All syllabi submitted to the project must include the following.
If the syllabi does not already include some of the information, then
please add this information at the top.

   1.

   University name
   2.

   Course title
   3.

   Department/School in which the course is offered
   4.

   Indicate whether the course is for undergraduate (associate,
   bachelor’s), graduate (master’s, PhD), or both
   5.

   Date: The term in which the course is being or was last taught (i.e.
   Spring 2024).
   6.

   Course description
   7.

   Course objectives/outcomes
   8.

   Reading list identifying all readings AND/OR course schedule including
   all readings
   9.

   Be written in English or translated into English by the author

There is no limit to the number of syllabi an individual can submit. For
recurring courses, submit ONLY the most recent version of the syllabus.

Participants do NOT have to format the syllabi a certain way or remove
extraneous information from the syllabi; although, they may want to remove
personal or sensitive information if submitting to the public repository.

Voluntary Inclusion in Public Repository

The format of the public repository will be dependent upon the number of
syllabi received. Possible distribution options include a folder in Google
Drive or a dedicated page on an existing website.

All syllabi to be included in the repository will be posted “as is” and
will be available to the public (i.e. anyone on the internet). Participants
voluntarily submitting to the repository are responsible for removing any
information they do NOT want shared publicly such as their name, contact
information, office/student-meeting hours, links to online learning
systems, policies, etc.

The syllabi of participants who do not want to contribute to the repository
will be stored separately and only be available to the researchers. Syllabi
will be deleted once the project is completed.

Syllabi submission:

To participate, please e-mail your syllabi to hmcsyllabusproject at gmail.com.
In your e-mail, please indicate whether you want your syllabi shared
publicly via the online repository. The deadline to participate in the
project is September 13, 2024.

HMC Resources:

Fortunati, L., & Edwards, A. (2020). Opening space for theoretical,
methodological, and empirical issues in Human-Machine Communication.
Human-Machine
Communication. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.1.1 (open access)

Guzman, A.L. (2018). What is Human-Machine Communication, anyway? Human-Machine
Communication: Rethinking communication, technology, and ourselves (link to
chapter author copy
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dl1DQLf_nH2WVJNSfFHntsOInDrqXW8-/view?usp=sharing>
)

Human-Machine Communication Interest Group of the International
Communication Association. https://humanmachinecommunication.org/

Human-Machine Communication journal <https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/>

The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication edited by A.L. Guzman, R.
McEwen, S. Jones (2023). (link to Table of Contents
<https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-human%E2%80%93machine-communication/book273648#contents>
)

-- 
Jason E. Archer
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies
Director, Communication, Culture, and Media
Department of Humanities <https://www.mtu.edu/humanities/>
Executive Committee | Research Lead: Human Machine Culture
Institute of Policy, Ethics and Culture
<https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/people/executive-committee/>
Michigan Technological University
Pronouns: he/him
Website: jasonearcher.com