More Than Machines?: The Attribution of Inanimacy to Robot Technology - Brossura

Voss, Laura

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ISBN 10: 3837655601 ISBN 13: 9783837655605

Casa editrice: Transcript Verlag, 2021

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Laura Voss is a science manager at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. With a background in organizational, occupational, and neuro-cognitive psychology, she previously worked both as a science and technology studies researcher and science manager for international robotics R&D consortiums, and at the Technische Universität München.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Transcript Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3837655601
• ISBN 13: 9783837655605
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile