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2024

Etzrodt, K., Kim, J., van der Goot, M. J., Prahl, A., Choi, M., Craig, M. J. A., Dehnert, M., Engesser, S., Frehmann, K., Grande, L., Leo-Liu, J., Liu, D., Mooshammer, S., Rambukkana, N., Rogge, N., Sikström, P., Son, R., Wilkenfeld, N., Xu, K., Zhang, R., Zhu, Y., & Edwards, C. (2024). What HMC teaches us about authenticity. Human-Machine Communication, 8, 227-251. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.8.11

Brandley, b., & Dehnert, M. (2024). “I am not a robot, I am asexual”: A qualitative critique of allonormative rhetorics of ace and aro folks as robots, aliens, monsters. Journal of Homosexuality, 71(6), 1560–1583. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2023.2185092

Tracy, S. J., Gist-Mackey, A., &Dehnert, M. (2024). Phronetic iterative qualitative data analysis in organizational communication research. In B. H. J. M. Brummans, B. C. Taylor, & A. Sivunen (Eds.)., The Sage handbook of qualitative research in organizational communication (pp. 380-399). Sage.

2023

Dehnert, M. (2023). Hyper, broken, and artificial: How (not) to communicate about climate change. GeoHumanities, 9(2), 541–553. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2023.2232001

Dehnert, M., & Gunkel, D. J. (2023). Beyond ownership: Human-robot relationships between property and personhood. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231189260

Dehnert, M. (2023). Archipelagic human-machine communication: Building bridges amidst cultivated ambiguity. Human-Machine Communication, 6, 31–40. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.6.3

Dehnert, M. (2023). AI as communicative other: Critical relationality in human-AI communication. In S. Nah (Ed.), Research handbook on artificial intelligence and communication (pp. 300-314). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Dehnert, M. (2023). “I should be able to say this”: Hollow disagreement as not-so-covert fascism. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 19(2). http://liminalities.net/19-2/hollow.pdf

2022

Prasad, P., Labador, A., Terminel Iberri, A. I., Finney, D., Dehnert, M., & LeMaster, L. (2022). Phantasms in the halls: A future university is possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh. Review of Communication, 22(4), 259–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2022.2151848

Dehnert, M. (2022). Toward a critical posthumanism for social robotics. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14(9), 2019–2027. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00930-w

Dehnert, M., & Mongeau, P. A. (2022). Persuasion in the age of artificial intelligence (AI): Theories and complications of AI-based persuasion. Human Communication Research, 48(3), 386–403. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqac006

Dehnert, M. (2022). Sex with robots and human-machine sexualities: Encounters between human-machine communication and sexuality studies. Human-Machine Communication, 4, 131–150. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.4.7

Dehnert, M., & Tracy, S. J. (2022). On dead-ends, pit-stops, and reimagining the road: How failure leads to teaching expertise and pedagogical transformation. International Journal of Education and Social Science Research, 5(1), 334–351. http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2022.5127

Dehnert, M., Brouwer, D. C., & LeMaster, L. (2022). Anti-normativity under duress: An intersectional intervention in queer rhetorics. In J. Rhodes & J. Alexander (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of queer rhetoric (pp. 319–327). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003144809-43

Dehnert, M., & McKinnon, S. L. (2022). (Counter)Publics, transnationalism, and globalization: Dan Brouwer’s intellectual legacy and methodological touchpoints. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 108(2), 214–220. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2022.2055125

2021

Dehnert, M. (2021). Communication geographies of human-machine understanding: Entangled agencies, synthetic aesthetics, and machine matterings. Communication Studies, 72(6), 1146–1159. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2021.2011360

Dehnert, M., & Leach, R. B. (2021). Becoming human? Ableism and control in Detroit: Become Human and the implications for human-machine communication. Human-Machine Communication, 2, 137–152. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.2.7

Leach, R., & Dehnert, M. (2021). Becoming the other: Examining race, gender, and sexuality in Detroit: Become Human. Review of Communication, 21(1), 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2021.1892173

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