Dear AoIR Colleagues, My co-editor, Jens Kjeldsen, and I are pleased to announce the publication of our edited volume, "Ethos, Technology, and AI in Contemporary Society: The Character in the Machine" with Routledge. The volume <https://www.routledge.com/Ethos-Technology-and-AI-in-Contemporary-Society-The-Character-in-the-Machine/Hess-Kjeldsen/p/book/9781032671499> brings together scholars from across Europe and the United States to explore the intersection of ethos and technology, with a particular emphasis on AI. The book would be ideal for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. The volume is organized through the rhetorical concept of ethos as the perceived character of a speaker, or in this case, of technology and technological agents. Chapters explore the ways that ethos, credibility, and trust are affected by technology ranging from the basic use of cell phones to communicate to social media to generative AI chatbots. Please consider the volume for adoption for your courses or for research. I would also be happy to answer any questions you may have about it. Thank you for your time and interest! Aaron Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Ethos and Technology in Contemporary Society Aaron Hess (Aaron Hess, Arizona State University, USA) and Jens E. Kjeldsen (University of Bergen, Norway) Section 1: Modality and Circulation 2. Ethos+Trust in a Digital Age, a Case Chronology Laura J. Gurak and Jackie M. James (University of Minnesota, USA) 3. Ethos in the Machine—The Rhetorical Character of Debate AI Jens E. Kjeldsen (University of Bergen, Norway) 4. Dwelling in Midjourney: Ethos, Learning, and the Open Region E. Johanna Hartelius (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 5. Platform-Mediated Ethos Formation: Immigrants’ Perceptions of Authorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic Maryam Alavi Nia (University of Bergen, Norway) 6. A Computational Method for Quantitative Analysis of Ethos Katarzyna Budzynska, Marcin Koszowy, Ewelina Gajewska, Maciej Kulik, and Maciej Uberna (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Section 2: Sociotechnical Logics, Durability, and Circulation 7. The Gift of Character: Ethos in the AI Imaginary Aaron Hess (Arizona State University, USA) 8. Eros and Ethos in Celebrity Deepfake Pornography Amber Davisson (Keene State College, USA) 9. ‘We Have to Save the Children’: Ethos, Digital Affordances, and the Call to Adventure in Reactionary Digital Politics Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK) and Robert Topinka (University of London, UK) Section 3: Automation and Modality 10. Large Language Models: Logos without Ethos David J. Gunkel (Northern Illinois University, USA) 11. Fact-Checkers, Tech Giants, and Algorithmic Systems: Between Autonomy and Automation in the Relational and Dispersed Construction of Ethos Mette Bengtsson, Sabina Schousboe, Johan Farkas, (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Anna Schjøtt (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 12. The Ethos of Automation: Strategy-as-Rhetoric and the Development of Trustworthy Clinical AI Prins Marcus Valiant Lantz (Danish Academy of Sciences and Arts) and Sine Nørholm Just (Roskilde University, Denmark) 13. Training Response-Able Machines: The Cultivation of Social Ethos in Meta AI Jamie Jelinek (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Afterword Celeste M. Condit (University of Georgia, USA) -- Aaron Hess, PhD Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Fulbright Scholar, University of Bergen, Norway (2022-2023) College of Integrative Sciences and Arts | cisa.asu.edu Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix 455 N. 3rd St. AZCNTR Suite 386B Phoenix, AZ 85004 Mailcode 0520 Pronouns: he/him/his