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Chad Edwards
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Prof of COM at WMU and Fellow at RWTH-Aachen, Robots, Associate Editor of HMC
It was great to see you today @tomwilliams.phd. Welcome to Michigan. We are just down the road in Kalamazoo.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We are proud to introduce our latest book: Creating Communication and Media Research Labs.

This volume highlights the diversity of communication and media labs across our field. These chapters offer stories, models, and concrete lessons.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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.
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Human-Machine Communication | University of Central Florida
Designed as an international, interdisciplinary hub, Human-Machine Communication will publish high-impact scholarship examining human-machine communication.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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New article! Conradie, Kempt, Freyer & Nagel: As AI grows more interactive, our old ways of thinking about accountability no longer fit. 🤖
September 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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.

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October 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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How do people really feel about algorithms making decisions? Bock & Rosenthal-von der Pütten introduce the Attitudes Toward Algorithms Scale (ATAS).
October 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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New in Human-Machine Communication Vol. 10: Ratan & colleagues show CASA isn’t static, apps can make tech feel human & likable. #HMC
September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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🚀 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.
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Human-Machine Communication | University of Central Florida
Designed as an international, interdisciplinary hub, Human-Machine Communication will publish high-impact scholarship examining human-machine communication.
stars.library.ucf.edu
October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Tonight I’m reflecting on what an incredible presence Leopoldina Fortunati has been in our lives for the past 12 years. Nearly every week, she has been a steady collaborator and writing partner with Autumn, and together they’ve built a body of work rooted in creativity, rigor, and vision.
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s almost time for the first #hmc conference.
September 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I love this article every time I read it.
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."
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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
May 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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📢 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.
September 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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📢 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.
Socio-Technical Exchange with Machines: Worker Experiences with Complex Work Technologies
Machines are now commonplace work partners and Human-Machine Communication (HMC) is part of modern work. Guided by the machine heuristic and Social Exchange Theory (SET) this paper uses interviews wit...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Greenlandic art gets it.
July 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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It's almost time. The next submission deadline is July 15th. #HMC is Diamond Open Access.
June 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Presenting on AI at #ica25 and want to publish your paper? Consider submitting to the special issue, "How does AI change communication?", in the Journal of Language & Social Psychology. Coeditors are Bingjie Liu, Renwen Zhang, and myself. Abstracts due Aug. 1
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June 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Folks, YOU MUST USE THE MICROPHONE. Even if you're responding to Q+A. Chairs, you MUST repeat questions into the microphone please. This is an accessibility issue. It is in the instructions too. #ica25
June 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Awesome lineup of presentations today - Friday, June 13th! Download today's schedule here!

#ICA25 #HMC
June 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As always, the @ica-hmc.bsky.social precon is so good. #hmc
June 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We're less than 24hrs away from our #ICA25 HMC Pre-Conference in Denver! Presentations, Discussions, Networking.. Oh My!! Stay tuned for daily event posts including presentation times and locations! See you soon!!
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Our Pre-Confer­ence is sched­uled for June 12th in Denver!  The Human-Machine Commu­ni­ca­tion Inter­est Group supports and promotes schol­ar­ship regard­ing commu­ni­ca­tion between people and tech­n...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most senior elder from the Ogiek community wanted me to wear his animal skin cape today at our workshop and told me you are now part of us. Looking forward to our partnerships with the Ogiek community of the Mao as we build an app and AI systems with them. *we both were crying. ❤️
May 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Remember that next year's submissions are due June 15, 2025. www.hmcjournal.com
#hmc
Human-Machine Communication | University of Central Florida
Designed as an international, interdisciplinary hub, Human-Machine Communication will publish high-impact scholarship examining human-machine communication.
www.hmcjournal.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
As an #hmc community, we need to be thinking about how to support our friends and colleagues who are nervous to travel to the US and ways to support them if they don’t feel safe doing so.
March 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Going back two years to an article that needs to be widely read. #hmc #bots
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM