期刊名称：PLATFORM : Journal of Media and Communication
电子版ISSN：1836-5132
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：University of Melbourne
摘要：Robert Samuels has argued that "individual autonomy is now being generated throughtechnological and cultural automation" where cultural histories are "dominated by the para-doxical combination of social automation and individual autonomy" along with technicalautomation and socio-political control (2009: ix, 3). In the thematic issue of PLATFORM:Journal of Media and Communication we provide a tangent to Samuels' work by linkingconcepts of automation and autonomy, and transparency and agency. In what follows, wepresent an explorations of themes through issues of social assemblage, public-privacy andthe relationship between automation, impulsivity and compulsion
