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The rapid proliferation of conversational AI into everyday communicative practice has produced digitally mediated forms of identity wherein personal awareness and emotional patterns are shaped through continuous feedback from algorithmic systems.
“The rapid proliferation of conversational AI into everyday communicative practice has produced what academics describe as digitally mediated forms of identity wherein personal awareness and emotional patterns are shaped through continuous feedback from algorithmic systems [10,17,18].”
From Encountering Generative AI: Narrative Self-Formation and Technologies of the Self Among Young Adults (2026) · cites this paper as [17]
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Encountering Generative AI: Narrative Self-Formation and Technologies of the Self Among Young Adults
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“The rapid proliferation of conversational AI into everyday communicative practice has produced what academics describe as digitally mediated forms of identity wherein personal awareness and emotional patterns are shaped through continuous feedback from algorithmic systems [10,17,18].”
- Authors
- Brubaker, R.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brubaker, Rogers
- ORCID
- Brubaker, Rogers
- Venue
- Theory and Society
- Published
- 2020-08-26
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 5-6
- Pages
- 771-801
- ISSN
- 0304-2421 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7853
- OpenAlex
- W3080195067
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 16.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Theory and Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Keywords
- self, practices of the self, self-government, socio-technical systems, datafication, algorithmic governance, quantification, Michel Foucault, emancipation
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