The Model of Automated Knowledge Communication – Developing Specialized Communication Studies: An Outline

The Model of Automated Knowledge Communication outlined in this article aims to broaden the scope of current conceptualizations of specialized communication to account for self-adapting, AI-/LLM-based machines. These machines are presently changing the practice of multilingual specialized communication in fundamental ways – hence necessitating research to adapt. The model facilitates the development of specialized communication studies specifically by integrating, firstly, new approaches toward concepts of expert knowledge and, secondly, the involvement of sophisticated machines able to act increasingly autonomously. In order to conceptually account for the latter, the model extends the discourse of specialized communication to approaches of cybernetics, technical sociology, and media sociology. The paper starts with an overview of the objects of research the model can be applied to.