This chapter introduces the authors' symbiotic agency theory and shows how it can address
the problems around agency theories developed by communication and media studies as …

In this essay, we reconstruct a keyword for communication—affordance. Affordance, adopted
from ecological psychology, is now widely used in technology studies, yet the term lacks a …

The late twentieth century sociology began to recognise the performative role of
technological artefacts in human lives. These objects enact their non-human agency by …

Few people would dispute the claim that new technologies bring changes to the way people
communicate, act, and organize their social relations. Technologies such as tablet …

Technological and social evolutions have prompted operational, phenomenological, and
ontological shifts in communication processes. These shifts, we argue, trigger the need to …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and people's interactions with it—through virtual agents, socialbots,
and language-generation software—do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication …

As the global influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in our daily lives and the looming advent
of artificial general intelligence (AGI) become increasingly apparent, the need for a …

During the past decade, the role of technological objects in society and in people's everyday
lives has become a central theme in the philosophy of technology. Many authors have made …

A recurrent theme of human–machine interaction is how interaction is defined and what kind
of information is relevant for successful communication. In accordance with the theoretical …

James J. Gibson (1979) introduced the concept of affordances to capture the dynamic
relationship between organisms and their environment. Over the past forty years, the …