More Than Machines? The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

Voss, Laura

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%T More Than Machines? The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
%A Voss, Laura
%P 211
%D 2021
%I transcript Verlag
%K Animacy; Anthropomorphism; Agency; Society; Science; Sociology of Technology; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Work and Industry
%@ 2703-1551
%@ 978-3-8394-5560-9
%~ transcript Verlag
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-88506-6
%U https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839455609.pdf
%X We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? The author 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, the author 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.
%C DEU
%C Bielefeld
%G en
%9 Dissertation
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info