Communicative machines are epistemic provocateurs. Etzrodt & Edwards open HMC Vol. 12, arguing that #HMC is built to sit with the knowledge disruptions machines create—not resolve them. doi.org/10.30658/hmc.12.1

New in @HMCjournal (Vol. 12)! 🤖📰 Jung, Piercy, & Spence ask: does it matter if your news source is human or AI? Spoiler: less than you'd think. "Normalizing AI: The Evanishing Effect and Rethinking the Machine Heuristic" #HMC #HumanMachineCommunication

What do people think AI should be capable of and what roles it should play? In “AI Humanizers, Pragmatists, Skeptics: A Cluster Analysis of Normative Attitudes for AI’s Capabilities and Roles,” Kate K. Mays and Ekaterina Novozhilova map three distinct public orientations toward AI.

New in Human-Machine Communication: Árni Már Einarsson & Ekaterina Pashevich examine naturally occurring student–chatbot interactions, showing how human–AI relations are communicatively constructed through patterns of activity and agency negotiation. stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/vol12/is...

New article: “The Material Condition: A Practice Theory-Oriented Infrastructural Turn to the Ethics of Human-AI Communication” by Anne Mollen and Sigrid Kannengießer. Read it here: stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/vol12/is... #hmc

New in Human–Machine Communication: Andrew Prahl’s “Two Years to Madness: A 30-Month Journal of Human–Machine Communication and Second-Hand Reality” explores how sustained engagement with generative AI reshapes identity, cognition, and everyday life. #hmc #AI

Klaus Bruhn Jensen’s Whole Earth Machines: Human-Machine Communication for a Green Transition 🌱📡 examines how communication systems and Whole Earth Machines inform climate action and human–machine coexistence. stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Excited to share Volume 12 of the Human-Machine Communication Journal is now live 🎉! Explore all the articles here: stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/ — we’ll be highlighting these amazing pieces over the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

🎉 Exciting news — Human–Machine Communication (HMC) is now accepting submissions for the July issue. Deadline: January 2. Huge thanks to our dedicated editorial board for strengthening our community. Check out the submission page and guidelines here: stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/

New research by Seungahn Nah et al., “The Algorithmic Public Sphere: AI-Generated News Site as a Conduit to Social Capital,” examines how AI news platforms shape trust, social capital, and civic engagement. stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

The deadline for submitting manuscripts for the July volume is coming up! Please remember to send your contributions by January 2, 2026. #hmc

New publication alert. Leopolidina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards, WeiMing Ye, Anna Maria Manganelli, Chad Edwards, Soledad Caballero, Lusike Mukhongo, and Giovanni Ferrin examine global student perspectives in Making Sense of the Role of ChatGPT in Education. stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Manuscripts for the July volume are due January 2, 2026. #hmc.

New in Human Machine Communication: Jessalyn I. Vallade, Renee Kaufmann, and Trenton Upchurch publish “Made Classes Easier Than a Coloring Sheet”: Student Perceptions and Uses of GenAI. The study shows how students balance benefits, risks, and ethical concerns when using GenAI.

🚀 New in Human–Machine Communication: “Coding OpenAI in an Open-Sourced Code Sharing Platform” explores how global developers collaborate on ChatGPT projects on GitHub, reshaping AI innovation worldwide. 📷https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.11.3 #hmc #AI #OpenSource

Calling all #HMC scholars! The Human-Machine Communication journal now welcomes submissions in January and July, with issues released six months later. Join our open-access community. 🔗 stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc

How do people really feel about algorithms making decisions? Bock & Rosenthal-von der Pütten introduce the Attitudes Toward Algorithms Scale (ATAS).

How do college students in Pakistan view #AI—friend, threat, or something in between? 🇵🇰 A new study in HMC explores how students outside the West make sense of AI in learning and everyday life. stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

🚀 Just published: Human-Machine Communication Vol. 11 (2025) — Generative AI: Another Chapter of Human-Machine Communication Delve into new research on how generative AI is reshaping discourse, agency, trust, education & more. 🔗 stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/

New in Human-Machine Communication Vol. 10: Ratan & colleagues show CASA isn’t static, apps can make tech feel human & likable. #HMC

New article! Conradie, Kempt, Freyer & Nagel: As AI grows more interactive, our old ways of thinking about accountability no longer fit. 🤖

📢 New in Human-Machine Communication (Vol. 10): “Socio-Technical Exchange with Machines” by Cameron Piercy & Reaia Turner-Leatherman 👉 bit.ly/4pebu2D Workers described machines as colleagues, gatekeepers—even lifesavers.

📢 Launching our celebration of Volume 10 of Human-Machine Communication! We begin with David Gunkel. “Prompted by Me. Generated by ChatGPT”—an experimental essay that treats AI not just as a topic but as a co-creator.

It's almost time. July 15th is the next deadline for submissions for HMC. #hmc

It's almost time. The next submission deadline is July 15th. #HMC is Diamond Open Access.

Hope all had an amazing #ica25. Don’t forget that the next round of submissions are due July 15th. #hmc

Manuscripts for the next volume are due July 15th. HMC is Diamond Open-Access. #hmc #ica25

Van der Goot & Etzrodt unpack two core paradigms in HMC: Media Equation vs. Media Evocation 🤖🧠 A must-read for theory lovers! doi.org/10.30658/hmc... #HMC #AI #CommTheory

Read the latest from Cait Lackey and @zizip.bsky.social. "we advocate for replacing ex machina mentalities with richer understandings of the more-than-human world formed by interconnected and integrated human, human-made, and nonhuman conscious machines, not superior or inferior but each unique."

Remember that next year's submissions are due June 15, 2025. www.hmcjournal.com #hmc