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Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
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Abstract Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified lingu... view more
Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, media and data practices under platformized conditions and new interfaces. This collection thus brings together perspectives from media sociology, media studies, media linguistics and domestication research.... view less
Keywords
digital media; digitalization; surveillance; privacy; language; linguistics; media; Internet
Classification
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Culture and institutions; Data Practices; Domestication; Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; Human-Computer-Interaction; Interfaces; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies; Media studies: internet, digital media and society; Social interaction; Social sciences; Sociology and anthropology; Sociology of Media
Document language
English
Publication Year
2025
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
406 p.
Series
Media in Action, 7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472002
ISSN
2749-9979
ISBN
978-3-8394-7200-2
Status
Published Version; reviewed