In more than 60 years since the founding of artificial intelligence (AI) as a formal academic discipline, rapid advances in technology have driven an enormous increase in interest in the field of study. AI subfields, including machine learning, neural networks, and the social implications of AI, have initiated new approaches to research and emergent questions. Of particular interest is the study of AI at its intersection with the study of communication. Like AI, communication, too, overlaps with other fields like sociology, anthropology, economics, and computer science, among others, while focusing on human information exchange in its various forms. Despite an increasing scholarly attention of artificial intelligence, AI/communication studies concerning social, political, cultural, and ethical aspects of machine intelligence, interactions among agents, and social artifacts remain ripe for exploration. This special issue tackles these unexplored research areas with special emphasis on conditions, components, and consequences of cognitive, attitudinal, affective, and behavioral dimensions toward communication and AI. This special issue epitomizes communication scholarship on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a total of six articles. Topics vary from interactions between humans and robots through news representation of artificial intelligence to AI-based news credibility. The collection of the special issue offers implications for not only theoretical and methodological perspectives, but policy-makers and practitioners alike.

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传播学

自人工智能 (AI) 作为一门正式学科成立以来的 60 多年里，技术的快速进步推动了人们对研究领域的兴趣的巨大增长。人工智能子领域，包括机器学习、神经网络和人工智能的社会影响，已经启动了研究和紧急问题的新方法。特别令人感兴趣的是人工智能研究与交流研究的交叉点。与人工智能一样，通信也与社会学、人类学、经济学和计算机科学等其他领域重叠，同时专注于各种形式的人类信息交换。尽管学术界对人工智能、关于机器智能的社会、政治、文化和伦理方面的人工智能/通信研究越来越关注，代理之间的交互和社会工件的探索时机仍然成熟。本期特刊解决了这些未探索的研究领域，特别强调了沟通和人工智能的认知、态度、情感和行为维度的条件、组成部分和后果。本期特刊共发表了六篇文章，是人工智能 (AI) 传播学术研究的缩影。话题从人与机器人之间的互动到人工智能的新闻表示，再到基于人工智能的新闻可信度。特刊的收集不仅对理论和方法论的观点，而且对政策制定者和从业者都有影响。本期特刊解决了这些未探索的研究领域，特别强调了沟通和人工智能的认知、态度、情感和行为维度的条件、组成部分和后果。本期特刊共发表了六篇文章，是人工智能 (AI) 传播学术研究的缩影。话题从人与机器人之间的互动到人工智能的新闻表示，再到基于人工智能的新闻可信度。特刊的收集不仅对理论和方法论的观点，而且对政策制定者和从业者都有影响。本期特刊解决了这些未探索的研究领域，特别强调了沟通和人工智能的认知、态度、情感和行为维度的条件、组成部分和后果。本期特刊共发表了六篇文章，是人工智能 (AI) 传播学术研究的缩影。话题从人与机器人之间的互动到人工智能的新闻表示，再到基于人工智能的新闻可信度。特刊的收集不仅对理论和方法论的观点，而且对政策制定者和从业者都有影响。本期特刊共发表了六篇文章，是人工智能 (AI) 传播学术研究的缩影。话题从人与机器人之间的互动到人工智能的新闻表示，再到基于人工智能的新闻可信度。特刊的收集不仅对理论和方法论的观点，而且对政策制定者和从业者都有影响。本期特刊共发表了六篇文章，是人工智能 (AI) 传播学术研究的缩影。话题从人与机器人之间的互动到人工智能的新闻表示，再到基于人工智能的新闻可信度。特刊的收集不仅对理论和方法论的观点，而且对政策制定者和从业者都有影响。