More Than Machines?
The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
dc.contributor.author | Voss, Laura | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-28T04:15:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-01-28T04:15:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2023-01-27T15:07:24Z | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20230127_9783839455609_14 | |
dc.identifier | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60939 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96410 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Science Studies | |
dc.rights | open access | |
dc.subject.other | Robot | |
dc.subject.other | Artificial Intelligence | |
dc.subject.other | Animacy | |
dc.subject.other | Anthropomorphism | |
dc.subject.other | Agency | |
dc.subject.other | Technology | |
dc.subject.other | Society | |
dc.subject.other | Science | |
dc.subject.other | Sociology of Technology | |
dc.subject.other | Sociology of Culture | |
dc.subject.other | Sociology of Work and Industry | |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | |
dc.subject.other | thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society | |
dc.subject.other | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies | |
dc.subject.other | thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour | |
dc.title | More Than Machines? | |
dc.title.alternative | The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.14361/9783839455609 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9783839455609 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9783837655605 | |
oapen.imprint | transcript Verlag | |
oapen.pages | 216 | |
oapen.place.publication | Bielefeld |
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