Description: 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.
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EAN: 9783837655605
UPC: 9783837655605
ISBN: 9783837655605
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Book Title: More Than Machines? - The Attribution of (In)Anima
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Height: 226 mm
Item Width: 147 mm
Author: Laura Voss
Publication Name: More than Machines?-The Attribution of (In) Animacy to Robot Technology
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Subject: Sociology
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 666 g
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
