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dc.contributor.authorVoss, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-28T04:15:03Z
dc.date.available2023-01-28T04:15:03Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2023-01-27T15:07:24Z
dc.identifierONIX_20230127_9783839455609_14
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60939
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96410
dc.description.abstractWe 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.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesScience Studies
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherRobot
dc.subject.otherArtificial Intelligence
dc.subject.otherAnimacy
dc.subject.otherAnthropomorphism
dc.subject.otherAgency
dc.subject.otherTechnology
dc.subject.otherSociety
dc.subject.otherScience
dc.subject.otherSociology of Technology
dc.subject.otherSociology of Culture
dc.subject.otherSociology of Work and Industry
dc.subject.otherSociology
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour
dc.titleMore Than Machines?
dc.title.alternativeThe Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14361/9783839455609
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c
oapen.relation.isbn9783839455609
oapen.relation.isbn9783837655605
oapen.imprinttranscript Verlag
oapen.pages216
oapen.place.publicationBielefeld


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