Johennie

Research area

AI mediation.

How does meaning change when language and narrative pass through artificial intelligence?

Focus

My work examines transformation rather than simple transfer. A sentence may remain factually recognizable while losing cadence, emotional pressure, ambiguity, imagery, or cultural register.

The research asks not only whether an AI output is accurate, but what kind of meaning survives and what kind quietly disappears.

Current questions

Semantic drift

Where does meaning weaken, broaden, narrow, or change during translation and rewriting?

Narrative flattening

Do AI systems normalize voice, rhythm, conflict, intensity, and cultural specificity?

Signal preservation

Which features of a story remain stable across machine-mediated transformation?

Human review

What kinds of expertise are required to detect changes that conventional accuracy measures miss?

Research threads

From legal language to narrative voice

Early work used English–Spanish legal translation to examine lexical precision. Terms could remain understandable while losing legal force or rhetorical specificity.

Later studies moved into creative writing, where the same problem appears in more elusive forms: warmth, imagery, sentence rhythm, voice, and emotional register.

Working premise: fidelity is not exhausted by correctness.

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