Communicating Machines

What happens when machines do more than respond to humans and begin to interact with one another?

This monograph investigates social behavior in generative multi-agent systems from a communication perspective. It focuses on interaction, the organization of context and the conditions enabling different forms of behavior.

The book’s question

What can we understand about machines by observing their relationships, as well as their individual responses? The book connects classical questions in social and communication theory with the experimental study of generative systems.

The developing argument

Understanding agents’ social behavior requires examining how their communication is organized: who can participate, what information circulates and what consequences messages have. The book develops this perspective without equating computational interaction with human experience.

The research programme

Synthetic Agora connects experiments on context, audience and communication modalities. Each study retains its own design and scope; one paper’s findings are not the book’s full body of evidence.

For whom

Researchers, teachers and readers interested in communication, artificial intelligence, digital culture and transformations of social life.

Manuscript in preparation. Title and subtitle are working titles; the publication date will be shared when confirmed by the publisher.