Triggered by Socialbots: Communicative Anthropomorphization of Bots in Online Conversations

This article examines communicative anthropomorphization, that is, assigning of humanlike features, socialbots in communication between humans and bots. Situated the field human-machine communication, asks how are devised as anthropomorphized companions explores ways which human users anthropomorphize bots through communication. Through an analysis two datasets interacting with on social media, we find communicatively by directly addressing them, agency to drawing parallels bots, emotions opinions We suggest inherently have characteristics affordances, but their anthropomorphization is completed actualized conceptualize this process anthropomorphization.