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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | More Than Machines |
ISBN: | 3-8394-5560-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996509965303316 |
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