More Than Machines? : The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology / Laura Voss
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 scien...
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1\u Voss, Laura Technische Universität München, Deutschland aut More Than Machines? The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology Laura Voss 1st ed. Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021 202103 1 online resource (216 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Science Studies In English. 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 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. 1\u Laura Voss is a science manager in the Research Strategy Unit of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. With a background in neuro-cognitive, organizational, and occupational psychology, she previously worked as a science and technology studies researcher and as a science manager at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and for international robotics R&D consortiums at the Technische Universität München. Doctoral Thesis Technische Universität München 2020 This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy Robot; Artificial Intelligence; Animacy; Anthropomorphism; Agency; Technology; Society; Science; Sociology of Technology; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Work and Industry; Sociology; Agency. Animacy. Anthropomorphism. Artificial Intelligence. Science. Society. Sociology of Culture. Sociology of Technology. Sociology of Work and Industry. Sociology. Technology. 3-8376-5560-1 |
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