From virtual assistants to social robots people are increasingly interacting with intelligent and highly communicative technologies throughout their daily lives. This shift from communicating with people to communicating with people and machines challenges how scholars have theorized and studied communication. Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication Technology and Ourselves addresses this transition in how people communicate and who or what they communicate with and the implications of this evolution for communication research. Geared toward scholars interested in people's interactions with technology this book serves as an introduction to human-machine communication (HMC) as a specific area of study within communication (encompassing human-computer interaction human-robot interaction and human-agent interaction) and to the research possibilities of HMC. This collection includes papers presented as part of a scholarly conference on HMC along with invited works from noted researchers. Topics include defining HMC theoretical approaches to HMC applications of HMC and the larger implications of HMC for self and society. The research presented here focuses on people's interactions with multiple technologies (artificial intelligence algorithms and robots) used within different contexts (home workplace education journalism and healthcare) from a variety of epistemological and methodological approaches (empirical rhetorical and critical/cultural). Overall Human-Machine Communication provides readers with an understanding of HMC in a way that supports and promotes further scholarly inquiry in a growing area of communication research. . Language: English