[Commlist] New OA book: What Was Artificial Intelligence?

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/>is a scholar-led, 
nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and 
communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication 
of our latest book, Sue Curry Jansen’s/What Was Artificial Intelligence? 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai>/.

When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was 
Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was 
published as a chapter in Jansen’s /Critical Communication Theory/, a 
book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many 
fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and 
telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an intellectual had few 
competent readers in the communication studies discipline into which she 
published the book. “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” was buried 
treasure. In this mediastudies.press edition 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai>, Jansen’s prescient autopsy of AI 
self-selling—the rhetoric of the masculinist sublime—is reprinted with a 
new introduction. Now an open access book, /What Was Artificial 
Intelligence? <https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai>/ is a message in a 
bottle, addressed to Musk, Bezos, and the latest generation of AI 
myth-makers.

The book is available online, and as a free download in PDF 
<https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/wwai1.0/jansen-what-was-artificial-intelligence-2022.pdf>, 
ePub 
<https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/wwai1.0/jansen-what-was-artificial-intelligence-2022.epub>, 
and Mobi 
<https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/wwai1.0/jansen-what-was-artificial-intelligence-2022.mobi>. 
The book is also available as a $5 paperback 
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951399064?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860>.

/What Was Artificial Intelligence? 
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951399064>/ appears in the Media Manifold 
series <https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series>. Scholars 
interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged 
to reach out with a query <https://www.mediastudies.press/queries>.

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