"Are you human?" Plädoyer für eine kommunikationstheoretische Fundierung interpretativer Forschung an den Grenzen des Sozialen

Muhle, Florian

doi:10.17169/fqs-17.1.2489

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“…On the one hand, constructivist theories such as social phenomenology, communicative constructivism, and systems theory emphasize the idea that machines (apps, digital assistants, bots, etc.) can be described as an ‘objectification’ of human action and that the agency attributed to them is a projection of human actors or a personification of their expectations (Knoblauch 2020; Lindemann et al, 2016; Muhle 2016). The machine is understood as the ‘objectification’ of human intentionality (Knoblauch 2020: 118; Pfadenhauer 2014: 144).…”

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Agency in a datafied society: an introduction

Hepp,

Görland

2024

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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In media and communication research the datafied society has become a core concept for describing a society in which data-based sense making has become a fundamental principle of the construction of reality. In datafied societies it is often suggested that the possibilities of human agency are evolving, while also recognizing that a new form of machinic agency has become a ubiquitous phenomenon of daily life. The thematic issue Agency in a datafied society takes up such a discussion and aims to contribute to further clarification through theoretical and empirical articles. This introduction aims to achieve two objectives: First, it addresses the intellectual risks posed by empirical and conceptual ambiguity linked to vague interpretations of a datafied society. In tandem, it systematically categorizes the diverse applications of the term agency in the context of investigating a datafied society. Both serve as a foundation for situating the further contributions to this special issue in within the broader discourse of the field.

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