CASC investigates the hidden mechanisms through which AI reshapes social reality, culture, and human experience. Our interdisciplinary research explores the social, psychological, ethical, and cultural dimensions of AI. Key themes include:

1. Algorithmic Domination — How automated systems reinforce hierarchies, reproduce inequality, and mediate access to opportunities.
2. The Culture Industry in the Age of AI — How AI-driven platforms shape taste, desire, and cultural production, following the Frankfurt School tradition.
3. Manipulation, Disinformation, and Cognitive Vulnerability — AI-enabled propaganda, synthetic media, microtargeting, and mass persuasion mechanisms.
4. AI, Attention, and the Transformation of Human Experience — Erosion of deep thought, snap-news cognition, and attention commodification.
5. AI Ethics and Ideology — Critiques of corporate narratives, “ethics-washing,” and profit-driven technological agendas.
6. Predictive Governance and Social Sorting — How algorithmic decision systems and surveillance infrastructures shape citizenship and subjectivity.

AI, Loneliness, and Social Relationality — Effects of algorithmic interaction, platform isolation, and substitution of human connection with machine responsiveness.