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dc.contributor.authorKouros, Theodoros-
dc.contributor.authorPapa, Venetia-
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-13T11:34:29Z-
dc.date.available2025-01-13T11:34:29Z-
dc.date.issued2024-10-08-
dc.identifier.citationSocieties, 2024, vol.14, iss. 10en_US
dc.identifier.issn20754698-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/33542-
dc.description.abstractThis exploratory study examines the socio-technical dynamics of Artificial Intelligence Companions (AICs), focusing on user interactions with AI platforms like Replika 9.35.1. Through qualitative analysis, including user interviews and digital ethnography, we explored the nuanced roles played by these AIs in social interactions. Findings revealed that users often form emotional attachments to their AICs, viewing them as empathetic and supportive, thus enhancing emotional well-being. This study highlights how AI companions provide a safe space for self-expression and identity exploration, often without fear of judgment, offering a backstage setting in Goffmanian terms. This research contributes to the discourse on AI’s societal integration, emphasizing how, in interactions with AICs, users often craft and experiment with their identities by acting in ways they would avoid in face-to-face or human-human online interactions due to fear of judgment. This reflects front-stage behavior, in which users manage audience perceptions. Conversely, the backstage, typically hidden, is somewhat disclosed to AICs, revealing deeper aspects of the self.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSocietiesen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/*
dc.subjectcomputers as social actorsen_US
dc.subjecthuman-computer interactionsen_US
dc.subjectself-presentationen_US
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen_US
dc.subjectconversational artificial intelligenceen_US
dc.titleDigital Mirrors: AI Companions and the Selfen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.collaborationCyprus University of Technologyen_US
dc.subject.categoryMedia and Communicationsen_US
dc.journalsOpen Accessen_US
dc.countryCyprusen_US
dc.subject.fieldSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.publicationPeer Revieweden_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/soc14100200en_US
dc.relation.issue10en_US
dc.relation.volume14en_US
cut.common.academicyear2024-2025en_US
item.grantfulltextopen-
item.languageiso639-1en-
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item.openairetypearticle-
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crisitem.author.deptDepartment of Communication and Internet Studies-
crisitem.author.deptDepartment of Communication and Internet Studies-
crisitem.author.facultyFaculty of Communication and Media Studies-
crisitem.author.facultyFaculty of Communication and Media Studies-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0003-2742-1158-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0002-6742-5172-
crisitem.author.parentorgFaculty of Communication and Media Studies-
crisitem.author.parentorgFaculty of Communication and Media Studies-
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