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Assistant Professor of Communication and Technology
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Marco Dehnert is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Technology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His research agenda is situated within the field of communication and technology, with a focus on human-machine communication, human-AI interaction, and the societal implications of communication technologies. Dehnert employs multi-method approaches in his scholarly work.
His publications explore various facets of human-machine and human-AI relationships. These include theoretical examinations of AI-based persuasion, qualitative analyses of how asexual and aromantic individuals are represented in relation to artificial entities, and the study of human-robot relationships, considering concepts of property and personhood. Dehnert also investigates the social and ethical dimensions of human-machine communication, such as ableism in interactive media and the role of AI chatbots in providing social support to mitigate loneliness and anxiety.
Dehnert's work has led to collaborations with other researchers at the University of Arkansas, including Rebecca B. Leach and Nicholas Purintun. He leads a research group focused on communication and technology. His scholarly output is reflected in an h-index of 7 and over 190 citations across 30 publications.
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- h-index: 7
- Publications: 30
- Citations: 217
Selected Publications
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The Communicative Construction of Care: Evidence for Subjectively Reciprocal Relations Between Humans and Machines (2026)
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On-Demand Intimacy: The Sociotechnical Appeal of AI Companions (2026)
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Artificial intelligence chatbots as a source of virtual social support: Implications for loneliness and anxiety management (2025)
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The Depolarizing Effect of AI Chatbots: Effects of Interactive News on Belief Perseverance and Information Seeking (2025)
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What HMC Teaches Us About Authenticity (2024)
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- Phronetic Iterative Qualitative Data Analysis in Organizational Communication Research
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- ON DEAD-ENDS, PIT-STOPS, AND REIMAGINING THE ROAD: HOW FAILURE LEADS TO TEACHING EXPERTISE AND PEDAGOGICAL TRANSFORMATION
- The Communicative Construction of Care: Evidence for Subjectively Reciprocal Relations Between Humans and Machines
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- Becoming Human? Ableism and Control in Detroit: Become Human and the Implications for Human-Machine Communication
- Becoming the other: examining race, gender, and sexuality in <i>Detroit: Become Human</i>
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- Anti-Normativity under Duress
- Toward a Transnational Queer Counterpublic Rhetorical Studies
- Anti-Normativity under Duress
- Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- Setting Up the Tent Poles: Revisiting and Extending the Big-Tent Model for Qualitative Quality
- The Communicative Construction of Care: Evidence for Subjectively Reciprocal Relations Between Humans and Machines
- Big love: computational approaches to the study of large-scale patterns in online dating behavior
- Persuasion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theories and Complications of AI-Based Persuasion
- (Counter)Publics, transnationalism, and globalization: Dan Brouwer’s intellectual legacy and methodological touchpoints
- Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh
- Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh
- Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh
- Phantasms in the Halls: A Future University is Possible (or) … a performative response to la paperson, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Julietta Singh
- “I am not a Robot, I am Asexual”: A Qualitative Critique of Allonormative Discourses of Ace and Aro Folks as Robots, Aliens, Monsters
- Beyond ownership: Human–robot relationships between property and personhood
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