International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. Vocal synthesizer programs such as Vocaloid use artificial intelligence to create humanlike vocal tracks without human singers. These programs often tie their voice banks to animated avatars, m…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Living with technology often entails work related to management and repair of it. The emerging literature on the work that goes into managing home networks and digital technologies has described it as ‘digital housekeeping’…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. LLM-based chatbots’ ability to generate contextually appropriate and informative texts can be taken as an indication that they are also able to understand text. We argue instead that the separation of the t…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. For humanoid robots, gender-ambiguous presentation is implemented as a potential way to avoid gender-stereotypical design. Using conversation analysis, we look at video recorded user interaction in the pres…
Journal of Creative Communications, Ahead of Print. This study examined the persuasive healthcare communication of COVID-19 vaccination using mobile phone caller tunes as cues to action in intention to get vaccinated. Results indicate that caller tunes…
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print. The article examines the intersection between two key fields in which international migrants respond to displacement and negotiate a sense of home: digital media and religion. The example chose…
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Canadian subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) services have commissioned French-language ‘original’ content to attract local audiences. ICI TOU.TV, Club Illico and Crave have indeed commissioned more than a hundred French-la…
Discourse &Society, Ahead of Print. The present paper employs conceptual tools of critical cognitive discourse studies (discourse space research, metaphor analysis, proximization) to explore patterns of legitimization discourse used by top Polish p…