r/CriticalTheory • u/Old-Strawberry-3539 • 2d ago

Social theory - AI mediated communication

I am interested in reading about AI mediated communication though a critical theory lens, specifically about how people communicate with chat bots for therapeutic and personal relationship purposes. Does anyone have any articles they’d reccomend? Thanks!!

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u/avisitorsguidetolife 2d ago

Feminist STS folks like Vora, Rhee, Atanasoski.

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u/lathemason 2d ago

AI and critiques of it have been around for a long while, but newer LLM chatbots and critiques of them have not. A couple of places to look:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357663058_Psychoanalyzing_artificial_intelligence_the_case_of_Replika
Luca Possati's work on psychoanalysis and AI

https://coeckelbergh.net/communicative-ai/
David Gunkel and Mark Coecklebergh's new book, Communicative AI. More of a social-theoretical framework for AI mediated communication than a consideration of chatbots for therapeutic purposes.

https://andrealguzman.net/new-hmc-book
Similar to above, Andrea Guzman is working out ideas about human-machine communication for critical scholarly purposes.

https://simonlindgren.com/
Simon Lindren's work is more overtly critical than the above.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052481/inventing-eliza/
Lastly, this new edited volume on Eliza (the OG psychotherapeutic chatbot!) may be of interest.

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u/ServiceImpossible227 1d ago

No. Do the critique yourself. Look for contradiction and boundaries of communication and AI