Erbay, Borabay

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Borabay Erbay
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borabay.erbay@ieu.edu.tr
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02.05. Sociology
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    Engineering Art-Ificial Intelligence in Music Production: Art for Engineers, Engineers for Art
    (Istanbul Univ, Fac Letters, Dept Sociology, 2025) Erbay, Borabay; Adas, Emin Baki
    This study investigates how software engineers working on music AI systems conceptualize music, art, and creativity, and how they integrate artificial intelligence (AI) as a co-creator in music composition processes. Drawing on 35 in-depth interviews with engineers based in the USA and T & uuml;rkiye, the research explores the values, assumptions, and interpretive frameworks that shape their technical and aesthetic practices. Findings reveal that while engineers often frame AI solely in computational terms, they tend to frame artistic creativity as a quality accessible only to human beings, positioning the human as the creative force in music as an artistic field and juxtaposing AI as a collaborative tool that can be utilized to unleash musical creativity in previously unexplored ways, which represents a new, hybrid form of artistic creativity. However, this collaboration is mediated by engineers' own worldviews, which are often shaped by technocentric, efficiency-driven logics that position AI as a means, leading to a blind faith in technology and ignoring the social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and colonialism embedded in AI. The contribution of this study to the sociology of AI literature is twofold. First, by emphasizing how cultural imaginaries of art and music are being reshaped in the co-production of music, the study provides an understanding of music as a form of art created through human-machine interactions. Second, it critically evaluates how this process of co-creativity reproduces social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and colonialism.
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    Opening the Black Box of AI: A Sociological Study of AI as a Network
    (Istanbul Univ, Methodology & Sociology Research Center, 2025) Erbay, Borabay; Joyce, Kelly
    This study provides a sociological understanding of the production of AI, which is underexplored in the sociology of AI. To achieve this, the study focuses on the AI development process. Utilizing Actor-Network Theory (ANT), this study demonstrates how the development of AI creates a network consisting of both human and nonhuman actors. The sociological literature focuses on how AI is adopted in various social contexts, identifying the social effects of its introduction and use. We investigate AI itself, showing the values and politics that constitute AI sociotechnical systems in the United States. Based on interviews with software engineers residing in Northeastern USA who work on AI and music platforms, the study highlights how humans and nonhuman actors and social forces such as capitalism and imperialism coproduce AI systems. Engineers’ technicality-bound worldview plays a crucial role in their interpretation of AI and the drive for efficiency and profit are foundational values that justify including nonhuman actors such as generative AI platforms and datasets as participants in AI networks. This ultimately results in the production of AI sociotechnical systems that recreate values central to capitalism and imperialism.
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    Exploring Perceptions of Algorithmic Bias Among Software Engineers: a Case Study of Software Engineers in İzmir, Türkiye
    (Inst History Science & Technology, Saint Petersburg Branch, Russ Acad Sci, 2024) Erbay, Borabay; Adas, Emin Baki
    This study investigates how software engineers perceive artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic bias. The study explores whether the human-like characteristics of AI influence their engineering practices, which traditionally hold a dualistic view of technology and society. Based on semi-structured interviews with software engineers in & Idot;zmir, T & uuml;rkiye, the findings reveal both similarities and differences between classical engineering and software engineering. Classical engineering views technology and society as separate entities, while software engineers adopt an ambivalent sociotechnical stance, acknowledging but neglecting their interconnectedness. Software engineers prioritize technical definitions and efficiency in assessing algorithms, often considering social dimensions secondary. However, they view algorithms not just as tools, but as codes shaping everyday life with social and cultural attributes. This departure from conventional understanding highlights the sociotechnical context in which software engineers operate. Moreover, the study shows that software engineers tend to interpret algorithmic bias through a technical lens, overlooking broader social and human contexts. These findings emphasize the urgent need to reassess the relationship between technology and society within the sociology of artificial intelligence, fostering a deeper understanding of sociality in software engineering.
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    Yapay Zekâ Sosyolojisi Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
    (2022) Adaş, Emin; Erbay, Borabay
    Günümüz dünyasında en çok tartışılan teknolojik yeniliklerden biri olan yapay zekâ, etkinliğini hayatın her alanında her geçen gün biraz daha arttırmaktadır. Yapılan çalışmalar ve istatistikler ortaya koymaktadır ki yapay zekânın toplumsal hayata olan etkisi mütemadiyen artmakta ve toplumsal yaşamı farklı biçimlerde etkilemektedir. Dolayısıyla yapay zekâ yazılım ve bilgisayar bilimlerinin olduğu kadar sosyal bilimlerin de ilgi alanına girmektedir. Yapay zekâyı konu edinen sosyolojik çalışmalar hem nitelik hem nicelik açısından artış göstermektedir. Sosyoloji içerisinde yapay zekâ üzerine çalışmalarda iki temel yaklaşım olduğu görülmektedir. Birinci gruptaki çalışmalar yoğunlukla yapay zekâyı toplumsal etkileri bağlamında sermaye ve siyasal iktidarların toplumsal kontrolü sürdürmelerinin bir aracı, toplumsal eşitsizlikleri yeniden üreten bir olgu ve onu üretenlerin kültürel yanlılıklarını taşıyan kültürel bir fenomen olarak ele alınmaktadır. İkinci gruptaki çalışmalar ise, genelde teknolojiyi özelde ise yapay zekâyı toplumsallığın üretiminde “toplumsal aktör” olarak konumlandıran çalışmalardır. Bu çalışmanın amacı yapay zekânın sosyoloji literatüründe ele alınış biçimlerini eleştirel bir perspektiften ele almak ve yapay zekâ sosyolojisini tartışmaya açmaktır.
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    Thinking Digitalization with Risk Society: Sub-Politics in Digital Space
    (2022) Diretgen Ozan Ercansungur; Erbay, Borabay