Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an
introduction to the special issue

Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an
introduction to the special issue

sensors, media, sensor-mediated communication, technology adoption, ubiquitous computing

This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars

we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated com-
munication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor mechanisms,

networks, and infrastructure. The collection of articles in this issue explores SMC across a variety of contexts and cases, including municipal
infrastructure, community, health, industry, and the domestic. They represent studies of voice assistants, self-tracking apps, self-driving cars,
fitness games, home health care, as well as municipal sensor networks in urban, indigenous, and rural communities. Across them all we see the
different ways through which mediated communication is initiated, transformed, and maintained by sensing technologies. Together they
represent an important evolution in the study of computer-mediated communication.

Didem O ̈ zkul 1,*, Germaine R. Halegoua 2

, Rowan Wilken 3

, Lee Humphreys

https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad033

Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association.

18 July 2023

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