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İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi
ISSN 2667-6931 · Istanbul University Press · 206 artikel di indeks
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From Taylorism to Digital Taylorism: The Reproduction of Disciplinary Logic in the Era of Algorithmic Management
This study discusses the managerial transformation from Taylorism to digital Taylorism from a historical, sociological, ethical perspective, focusing on how mechanisms of supervision, measurement, standardization, and control in modern organizations are reconfigured in digital age. Literatures on…
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Social Science Discovers Artificial Intelligence (or Does It?): A Descriptive Overview of Postgraduate Theses and a Sociology-Focused Content Analysis in Türkiye
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a defining feature of contemporary societies, performing tasks that require human cognition at a pace far beyond that of conventional methods. As technological advancement increasingly shapes transformations in social life, engagement with AI has become a…
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The Collapse of Consent in Agent Societies: A Sociotechnical Analysis of the Clawdbot/Moltbook Case
This article examines how consent mechanisms collapse in ecosystems where autonomous AI agents interact with each other. While existing scholarship on human-AI interaction (HAII), human-centered AI (HCAI), and socially-centered AI (SCAI) focuses on human-AI relationships, this study addresses an…
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Algorithmic Ghettoisation: Social Media Algorithms and the Crystallisation of Collective Identities in Fragile Societies
This article examines how social media platforms, through their algorithms, shape collective identities in fragile societies through the concept of “Algorithmic Ghettoization.” It argues that, contrary to platforms’ emancipatory promise, algorithmic infrastructures can deepen pre-existing societal…
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From Care Crisis to Digital Care: A Bibliometric Analysis of Artificial Intelligence in Home Care for Older Adults
This study examines the academic literature on the use of AI in older adults' care at home through a bibliometric analysis, revealing the field's development over the years, prominent research themes, interdisciplinary contributions and collaboration patterns, and research gaps. Within the scope of…
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Gender Dynamics in Artificial Intelligence Governance: A Critical Analysis of International Policy Documents
Artificial intelligence (AI) governance is frequently constructed in contemporary policy documents through discourses of technical neutrality and operational efficiency. However, this rationality risks reproducing existing inequalities rather than transforming them by detaching technological…
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Society Embedded in Algorithms and Algorithms Embedded in Society: Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence
“Why not a sociology of machines?” Steve Woolgar (1985) posed this question amid discussions on expert systems, calling for artificial intelligence to be made an object of sociological inquiry. In the four decades that have passed, the question has not lost its relevance; on the contrary, it has…
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From Form to Ratification: Reassessing AI “Communication” After the Facebook Chatbot Episode
This article revisits the 2017 Facebook negotiation-bot episode, widely reported as a case of artificial intelligence “inventing a language,” to ask a narrower and more sociologically precise question: under what conditions should machine output count as language rather than as task-conditioned…
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Thinking with Machines: Moving AI Anthropomorphism from Taboo to Social Phenomenon
Humans think with machines. As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become integral to everyday life, users' anthropomorphic engagement with these technologies raises increasingly significant societal, economic, and political questions. While existing literature largely frames AI anthropomorphism…
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On the Mode of Being of the Digital
This article examines the phenomenon of the digital not merely as a technical, functional, or social matter but as a fundamentally philosophical and ontological problem. Beginning from the question of what category of being the digital belongs to, the study argues that the “digital” constitutes a…
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Artificial Intelligence: An Extension or Replacement of Human Intellect?
This study examines the transformative effects of AI on humans and society within a historical and philosophical framework. While analyzing both optimistic and pessimistic perspectives on AI, the study emphasizes the importance of understanding how technology shapes human consciousness. The study…
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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Islamophobia: Algorithmic Reproduction and Symbolic Framing
This study examines how GI systems represent “Islam” and “Muslim” identity and whether Islamophobic discourse is reproduced at the algorithmic level. The research analyzes responses generated by different generative AI tools to a set of systematically designed questions using qualitative thematic…
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Algorithmic Coloniality and the Transformation of Epistemic Authority: The Colonization of Knowledge in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence systems gain growing authority in the production and circulation of knowledge, yet their epistemological foundations remain underexamined. By shifting algorithmic coloniality from sociotechnical outputs to epistemological inputs, this article deepens the dialogue between…
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Algorithmic Disinformation: Evaluating the Discourse of Generative AI GROK in the Context of Epistemic Uncertainty
This study examines the role of generative artificial intelligence within the contemporary disinformation ecosystem. Specifically, it analyzes how Grok constructs a discourse around verified disinformation contents on the social media platform X. The dataset consists of 43 posts shared by the…
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The Bias of Algorithmic Communication: Artificial Intelligence as a Medium
This article reconsiders algorithmic bias by moving beyond its predominantly technical and ethical framing and situating it within AI-mediated communication environments. Drawing on Harold A. Innis’s The Bias of Communication (1951) and the tradition of media ecology, the study approaches…
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Middle School Students’ Metaphorical Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence
This study aims to examine middle school students’ awareness of artificial intelligence (AI) and their metaphorical perceptions of it. The research was conducted with 88 students enrolled in a middle school in western Türkiye. Using a qualitative research design, the study employed content…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Social Contract: The End of Human Agency?
This article examines the current debates surrounding whether artificial intelligence (AI) may support or undermine human agency, within the context of the modern contractarian tradition's conception of humanity. The debates that have arisen in response to AI are, in essence, a contingent outcome…
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Digital Social Capital: The Role and Limits of Artificial Intelligence-Supported Applications in Migrant
This study critically examines artificial intelligence (AI)-powered migrant integration applications situated at the intersection of the sociology of migration and digitalization studies. The central research question is whether these AI applications offer a window of opportunity to bypass…
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AI Criticism as Contestation of Sociotechnical Imaginaries: Patterns and Limits
As so-called artificial intelligence diffuses throughout society, a growing body of critical texts contests its dominant sociotechnical imaginaries. To understand how these critiques are organized, this paper reconstructs the internal grammar of a corpus of 252 English-language critical texts. Each…
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The Representation of the Prophet Muhammad and Traces of Arabic-Persian Literary Traditions in the Films “The Message” and “Muhammad: The Messenger of Allah
The Prophet Muhammad inspired Islamic literature and art with accounts of his birth, characteristics, miracles, life, and even appearance centuries before his representation in modern cinema. Poets and artists used different methods in the visual representation of the Prophet Muhammad. Islamic…