Saba Rebecca Brause
Biographic Data
| ID | 4602991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saba Rebecca Brause |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saba Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Brause |
| SIGNATURE | BRAUSE S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8341-0491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence
As a transformative force, artificial intelligence (AI) has become central to national interests, international prestige, and geopolitical strategy, sparking a global competition for leadership as countries vie for economic and political influence. This competition also unfolds discursively, as nations and sectors seek to shape the public debate about the economic, political, and societal implications of AI. Despite this, scholarship remains larg…
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication
The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) has been widely used and proven fruitful to understand diverging trajectories of technologies. While scholars have acknowledged the multi-layered materialisation of SIs and highlighted the importance of the communicative layer therein, this aspect has remained under-conceptualised. Therefore, we propose an analytical framework to better understand Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Public Communication (…
‘There are some things that I would never ask Alexa’ – privacy work, contextual integrity, and smart speaker assistants
When new technologies like smart speaker assistants (SSAs) enter private spaces, new threats to privacy emerge. Drawing on the concepts of privacy work [Nippert-Eng, C. E. (2010). Islands of privacy. University of Chicago Press.] and contextual integrity [Nissenbaum, H. F. (2010). Privacy in context: Technology, policy, and the integrity of social life. Stanford Law Books.], this study uses qualitative interviews to explore two questions about SS…
Externalized domestication
Framed by domestication theory, affordances and use genres, this study explores early adopters’ uses of smart speaker assistants (SSAs), like Amazon Echo (Alexa) and Google Home. Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews, we develop a typology of use genres, and describe spatially distributed uses. The interviews revealed six use genres that go beyond the well-known convenience and entertainment. Specifically, the use genres of companionship,…
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Externalized domestication
Framed by domestication theory, affordances and use genres, this study explores early adopters’ uses of smart speaker assistants (SSAs), like Amazon Echo (Alexa) and Google Home. Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews, we develop a typology of use genres, and describe spatially distributed uses. The interviews revealed six use genres that go beyond the well-known convenience and entertainment. Specifically, the use genres of companionship,…
‘There are some things that I would never ask Alexa’ – privacy work, contextual integrity, and smart speaker assistants
When new technologies like smart speaker assistants (SSAs) enter private spaces, new threats to privacy emerge. Drawing on the concepts of privacy work [Nippert-Eng, C. E. (2010). Islands of privacy. University of Chicago Press.] and contextual integrity [Nissenbaum, H. F. (2010). Privacy in context: Technology, policy, and the integrity of social life. Stanford Law Books.], this study uses qualitative interviews to explore two questions about SS…
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication
The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) has been widely used and proven fruitful to understand diverging trajectories of technologies. While scholars have acknowledged the multi-layered materialisation of SIs and highlighted the importance of the communicative layer therein, this aspect has remained under-conceptualised. Therefore, we propose an analytical framework to better understand Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Public Communication (…
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence
As a transformative force, artificial intelligence (AI) has become central to national interests, international prestige, and geopolitical strategy, sparking a global competition for leadership as countries vie for economic and political influence. This competition also unfolds discursively, as nations and sectors seek to shape the public debate about the economic, political, and societal implications of AI. Despite this, scholarship remains larg…
Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Actor–network theory (1 works) · Affordance (1 works) · AI in Service Interactions (1 works) · Appropriation (1 works) · Big Data and Business Intelligence (1 works)