Convergence, Ahead of Print. The present study explores early adopters’ domestication processes of ChatGPT and Midjourney in the early phase of generative AI’s public breakthrough. To study this process, we conducted an online ethnography in two domina…
Journal of Creative Communications, Ahead of Print. In recent years, the ‘digital resurrection’ of the deceased through Deepfake technology has become a reality accessible to the general public and has raised profound ethical discussions in society. Wh…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. The article investigates the tensions between feminist conceptualizations of sexual violence and the persistence of patriarchal discourses that challenge it resulting in a justification of violence and miso…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. This study investigates the potential of using advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to help people understand complex AI systems. In line with conversation-analytic research, we view the par…
Journal of Creative Communications, Ahead of Print. Although the Internet of Things (IoT) has been acknowledged to significantly affect the nature of human interaction, the associations between IoT technologies and aspects of social bonds between human…
Journal of Creative Communications, Ahead of Print. The ongoing discourse regarding the potential substitution of human creativity by Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises questions about the essence of human nature. If the essence of humanity lies in cr…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. Over the last two decades a number of devastating work accidents have occurred in Turkey that have resulted in massacre-like deaths and destructions. Although dramatic consequences forced all actors to prom…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This study examines the strategies young Azerbaijani activists use to manage the visibility of their stigmatized political identities, particularly in relation to their families. Drawing on concepts of socially mediated vis…
Discourse &Communication, Ahead of Print. This study examines how insurance salespeople employ a mapping question to promote life insurance as an additional service to their customers. The mapping question serves a double function, asking about the…
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article offers an autoethnographic account of the author’s experiences with facilitating relational intimacy in the Oculus Meta Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) platform. In doing so, it provides accounts of the author con…