More Than Machines?

The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology

Laura Voss (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2021
transcript (Verlag)
978-3-8376-5560-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Science Studies
Zusatzinfo	12 SW-Abbildungen
Verlagsort	Bielefeld
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 225 mm
Gewicht	378 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Agency • Animacy • Anthropomorphism • Artificial Intelligence • robot • Science • Society • Sociology • Sociology of Culture • Sociology of technology • Sociology of Work and Industry • Technology
ISBN-10	3-8376-5560-1 / 3837655601
ISBN-13	978-3-8376-5560-5 / 9783837655605
Zustand	Neuware