More Than Machines? : The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology / Laura Voss
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| Autore: | Voss Laura (Technische Universität München, Deutschland) |
| Titolo: | More Than Machines? : The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology / Laura Voss |
| Pubblicazione: | Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.4834 |
| Soggetto topico: | Robot; Artificial Intelligence; Animacy; Anthropomorphism; Agency; Technology; Society; Science; Sociology of Technology; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Work and Industry; Sociology |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Agency |
| Animacy | |
| Anthropomorphism | |
| Artificial Intelligence | |
| Science | |
| Society | |
| Sociology of Culture | |
| Sociology of Technology | |
| Sociology of Work and Industry | |
| Sociology | |
| Technology | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Robots Wanted – Dead And/Or Alive -- 2. Disciplinary Context and Terminology -- 3. Making Robots: In/Animacy Attributions in Robotics Research and Development -- 4. Showing Off Robots: In/Animacy Attributions in Robotics Demonstrations, Science Communication, and Marketing -- 5. Reporting on Robots: In/Animacy Attributions in Media Discourse -- 6. Conclusions … and Openings -- References -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Appendix |
| Sommario/riassunto: | We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists - and everyone else - can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance. |
| ISBN: | 3-8394-5560-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910642296003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Science Studies