Oh wow! Just found that Jaime Banks and I have *two* papers nominated for Best Paper at HICSS - one in the Game Studies track (on developing a scale for sense of place) and one in the HRI (human-robot interaction) track. See you in Jan 24! Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

New pub led by K Koban: Secondary analysis of multiple studies, re correspondence b/w seeing robot mental capacities and more overtly ascribing mindful status. Only perc affective capacity (ability to feel emotion) links to ascribed mindfulness. #hmc #hri bit.ly/chbmind

I'm conducting a study to better understand the motivations for and benefits from consuming #cyberpunk genre media. Online #survey, 20-30 minutes. US$50 Amazon gift card drawing. Please consider sharing your thoughts with me. =) syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aa…

Students, we invite you to submit proposals to the #ICA24 Communication & Technology Division and Mobile Communication Division Doctoral Consortium. Proposals are due 1 February 2024. More information here: buff.ly/48U410A

"Communicative AI and Human Rights" Jaime Banks and I will be hosting a Blue Sky workshop at the International Communication Association conference - Gold Coast, Australia 22 June 2024. icahdq.org/mpage/ica24 #AIethics #HMC #robotrights #AI

Glad to be continuing my research over the next three years as SU iSchool's Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor ...

If you are going to be attending the International Communication Association conference next month in Gold Coast, Australia please join Jaime Banks and me for a blue sky session on communicative #AI and #humanrights - International Communication Association The Communication & Technology Division of ICA Human-Machine Communication

New out with Nick Bowman (包尼克) - unpacking the dimensions of Sense of Place across digital/physical and positively/negatively valenced spaces. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOyQ_,iJ9ot…

A new paper out - a deep dive into the experiences of people who have cultivated relationships with AI companions and then lost them when the companion platform shut down. #hmc #haii #ai journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

.@Jessica_M_Szcz, @morallust, Nick Bowman (包尼克), and I hope to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150365

Neat. =) Check out #5 here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Please take a minute to check out our #sxsw submission and considerat throwing it a vote. <3

New paper out on attitudes about synthetic porn - and this one is special, because it is first-authored by one of our Syracuse University iSchool UNDERGRAD students. This paper grew out of her honors thesis. I'm extremely proud of Sung and her work. doi.org/10.1080/232687…

Excited to share that @Jessica_M_Szcz, @morallust, and I will be joined by master moderator Nick Bowman (包尼克) at #SXSW to get past the hype and panic and discuss the science and ethics of intimate human-machine relations. schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP…

We are very excited that the next Moral Media Conference will be held at UBuffalo in April 2025! This year, we have a special submission track in which top papers will receive an auto-R&R decision for a special collection in Journal of Media Psychology! More info & CFP: moralmedia.org/annual-meeting/

Check out the most excellent cover art (by Insta: ninjajo_art) for my upcoming edited volume (Peter Lang). It brings together works by 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to unpack robots and their sociality.

🤖Just in time for your holiday shopping.🤭 Our new book brings together 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, philosophers, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to break down social robots and their bits. a.co/d/cv7DOwu

I'll present three fun papers at HICSS next week, out now in Proceedings: *AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904*H… we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906*W… an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120

Seeking folks with #AI #companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Z…