[Commlist] Cfp "AI and communication practices"

Cfp “AI and communication practices”

Special Issue MedieKultur

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only shaping contemporary 
communication processes but is actively contributing to and 
participating in them. Customer service chatbots communicate with us, 
prediction and surveillance models communicate about us, and content 
generators communicate instead of us. AI is, in other words, influencing 
how communication happens, and ultimately what it means to communicate. 
AI is, however, not developed, adopted, and employed in isolation. 
Rather, how media, researchers, citizens, vendors, data scientists, etc. 
understand, envision, and communicate about AI is key to how AI 
develops, what models are constructed, and the way they take part in 
processes of communication.

The special issue invites conceptual and empirical studies that examine 
and reflect on the role of AI in various communication processes. We 
especially welcome contributions that nuance and detail the interplay 
between humans and AI in communication practices. The special issue 
assembles vital insight on AI in communication and organizing processes 
striving for diversity in terms of nationalities and geography among the 
authors as well as the theoretical perspectives and methodological 
approaches, such as – to mention but a few – communication, 
organizational, and cultural studies, science and technology studies, 
actor-network theory, phenomenology and qualitative and quantitative 
studies, action research, discourse analysis, comparative approaches, 
(digital) ethnography, and mixed method approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

                 •              Empirical (case) studies on the use, 
application, and impact of AI in communication and organizational processes

                 •              Studies in AI-narratives, imaginaries, 
and expectations about AI and its implications for communication processes

                 •              Studies on understanding and 
sense-making processes in relation to the use and implementation of AI 
in organizations

                 •              Analyses of employees’, costumer’s, 
individual’s or group’s conceptualizations of AI inside and outside of 
the traditional organizational boundaries

                 •              Studies of human-AI relations, for 
example, the ethical dimension of AI-aided decision-making, and its 
opportunities and challenges for AI governance

                 •              Critical and cultural perspectives: 
conflicts, tensions and negotiations of AI in organizational settings

                 •              New, playful, and creative ways in 
which AI and communication practices are intertwined

Full call and timeline: 
https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/1069 
<https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/1069>

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): May 1st

Editorial team: Ib T. Gulbrandsen (Associate Professor, Roskilde 
University), Martina S Mahnke (Associate Professor, Roskilde 
University), Emma Christensen (Postdoc, Roskilde University), Julie 
Vulpius (Postdoc, Roskilde University), and Simon Karlin (PhD Fellow, 
Roskilde University)

Contact information: Associate Professor Martina S Mahnke (mahnke /at/ ruc.dk)

All papers are published open access, no author payments are required.

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