How do we interact with artificial agents? What relationships do people develop with these talking machines? What meaning and what place do these machines take in our daily lives? How do they reconfigure our activities at home, at work, in the public space? How do they affect us and what forms of attachment can they provoke?
In order to think about the complexity of the technological infrastructures associated with these AI applications and their consequences on our life in society, this issue proposes to rely on the results of surveys on the design, the appropriation or the interactions with these different agents.
"Resolutely empirical and descriptive, the bias of this dossier is also pluralistic by welcoming a diversity of ways of making ethnographies of AI. Bringing together works rooted in ethnomethodology, conversational analysis, video ethnography, interactional linguistics, economic sociology or social anthropology, it testifies to the fruitfulness of observational approaches to take the measure of contemporary technological and social transformations at the scale of practices.
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