“…In the background of all-encompassing info-communication systems (Kovtun et al 2022), mediatization (Hepp 2020;Feher 2022), platformization (Van Dijck 2021) and artificial intelligence technologies (AI) develop and spread to extend human-machine communication (HMC, Guzman et al 2023), AI-mediated communication (AI-MC, Hancock et al 2020), generative AI (Pavlik 2023) algorithmic and proxy media (Blanchett et al 2022) or super-human intelligence for interactivity (Guzman et al 2023). These trends engender diverse computational and AI agent roles encompassing senders, receivers, communicators, mediators, producers, editors, authors, creators, designers, analysts, distributors, moderators, and fact-checkers. Although it is useful to delimit the research focus (Hancock et al 2020), expansive research allows the exploration of a vision of a distant future for free, abstract, or specific associations.…”