Hello all, Simone Natale and I have just published a themed issue in Media, Culture & Society that addresses key questions in Human-Machine Communication (announcement below). We hope you enjoy the special issue, and feel free to share it across social media and within your professional circles. Thanks - Andrea Guzman Media, Culture & Society themed issue: "Reclaiming the Human in Machine Cultures" A new themed issue of Media, Culture & Society, entitled "Reclaiming the Human in Machine Cultures" and edited by Andrea L Guzman and Simone Natale, has now been published. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mcs/44/4 The goal of this themed issue is to draw from the tradition of cultural studies and cultural theory to move toward a conceptualization of culture in which machines are intertwined within human systems of meaning-making. Problematizing notions such as “algorithmic culture” and “machine culture,” contributors provide theoretical reflections and empirical evidence that help reaffirm the centrality of the human in this context. Table of contents Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction Simone Natale & Andrea L Guzman https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437221099614 Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems Taina Bucher https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437211036975 The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains Nanna Bonde Thylstrup https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437211060226 Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures Sai Amulya Komarraju, Payal Arora & Usha Raman https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437211029890 Algorithmic photography: a case study of the Huawei Moon Mode controversy Yuxing Zhang https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437211064964 Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System Fatima Gaw https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437211053767 Crosscurrents Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale Paola Ricaurte https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01634437211053767 _____ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University she/her/hers alguzman@niu.edu https://andrealguzman.net<https://andrealguzman.net/> ICA Human-Machine Comm. Interest Group<https://humanmachinecommunication.com/>