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Challenging Sociality
An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment
Häftad, 2018
1464 kr
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This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a “special” affinity between them and …
Enchanting Robots
Intimacy, Magic, and Technology
Inbunden, 2019
959 kr
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This book argues that robots are enchanting humans (as potential intimate partners), because humans are enchanting robots (by performing magical thinking), and that these processes are a part of a significant re-enchantment of the “modern” world. As a foundation, the author examines arguments for …
Cyborg Futures
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Inbunden, 2019
1530 kr
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This volume brings together academics from evolutionary biology, literary theory, robotics, digital culture, anthropology, sociology, and environmental studies to consider the impact of robotics and AI on society. By bringing these perspectives together in one book, readers gain a sense of the …
Cyborg Futures
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Häftad, 2021
1095 kr
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This volume brings together academics from evolutionary biology, literary theory, robotics, digital culture, anthropology, sociology, and environmental studies to consider the impact of robotics and AI on society. By bringing these perspectives together in one book, readers gain a sense of the …
Chatbots and the Domestication of AI
A Relational Approach
Inbunden, 2020
961 kr
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This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents. It reviews the possibility of establishing meaningful social relationships with chatbots and investigates the consequences of those relationships for contemporary debates in the …
Chatbots and the Domestication of AI
A Relational Approach
Häftad, 2021
961 kr
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This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents. It reviews the possibility of establishing meaningful social relationships with chatbots and investigates the consequences of those relationships for contemporary debates in the …
Limitations of Social Media Feminism
No Space of Our Own
Inbunden, 2020
1316 kr
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#MeToo. Digital networking. Facebook groups. Social media continues to be positioned by social movement scholars as an exciting new tool that has propelled feminism into a dynamic fourth wave of the movement. But how does male power play out on social media, and what is the political significance …
Limitations of Social Media Feminism
No Space of Our Own
Häftad, 2021
924 kr
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#MeToo. Digital networking. Facebook groups. Social media continues to be positioned by social movement scholars as an exciting new tool that has propelled feminism into a dynamic fourth wave of the movement. But how does male power play out on social media, and what is the political significance …
Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents
Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Inbunden, 2022
813 kr
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On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including posthumanism, ethics and human values, …
Artificial Intelligence and Its Discontents
Critiques from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Häftad, 2023
813 kr
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On what basis can we challenge Artificial Intelligence (AI) - its infusion, investment, and implementation across the globe? This book answers this question by drawing on a range of critical approaches from the social sciences and humanities, including posthumanism, ethics and human values, …
Proto-Algorithmic War
How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics
Inbunden, 2022
1425 kr
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During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a “failed state” in pixelated camouflage uniforms, accompanied by robots, and armed with satellite maps and biometric hand-held scanners. The Iraq War, however, was no digital game: massive-scale physical death …
Proto-Algorithmic War
How the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics
Häftad, 2023
1425 kr
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During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a “failed state” in pixelated camouflage uniforms, accompanied by robots, and armed with satellite maps and biometric hand-held scanners. The Iraq War, however, was no digital game: massive-scale physical death …
Responsible AI in Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
Av Damian Okaibedi Eke, Kutoma Wakunuma m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
552 kr
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This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical African perspectives and makes a case for African …
Responsible AI in Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
Av Damian Okaibedi Eke, Kutoma Wakunuma m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
443 kr
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This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical African perspectives and makes a case for African …
Good Robot, Bad Robot
Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI
Inbunden, 2022
1098 kr
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This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and …
Good Robot, Bad Robot
Dark and Creepy Sides of Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and AI
Häftad, 2023
1098 kr
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This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and …
Man-Made Women
The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots
Av Kathleen Richardson, Charlotta Odlind
Inbunden, 2023
1534 kr
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This book presents a unique, feminist approach to ‘sex’ dolls and ‘sex’ robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them. As new forms of pornography (porn robots), this edited volume provides an urgent women’s centred critique.The emergence of …
Man-Made Women
The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots
Av Kathleen Richardson, Charlotta Odlind
Häftad, 2024
1534 kr
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This book presents a unique, feminist approach to ‘sex’ dolls and ‘sex’ robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them. As new forms of pornography (porn robots), this edited volume provides an urgent women’s centred critique.The emergence of …
Chatbots and the Domestication of AI
A Relational Approach
Inbunden, 2024
1425 kr
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With the publication of chatGPT in December 2022, a new era of artificial dialogue systems and chatbots has emerged. Many established thinkers and figures have published their stance on the development of this technology, not rarely combined with stark language about its transformative potential …
Chatbots and the Domestication of AI
A Relational Approach
Häftad, 2025
1425 kr
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With the publication of chatGPT in December 2022, a new era of artificial dialogue systems and chatbots has emerged. Many established thinkers and figures have published their stance on the development of this technology, not rarely combined with stark language about its transformative potential …
Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability
Av Raul Hakli, Sven Nyholm m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1316 kr
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This book is about social robots and their disruptive potential with respect to social environments and cultural institutions. It seeks to develop an in-depth understanding and ethical analysis of how our cultural tenets are affected by the introduction of socially competent robotic technologies …
Challenging Sociality
An Anthropology of Robots, Autism, and Attachment
Inbunden, 2018
1464 kr
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This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA. Robotic scientists propose that robots can therapeutically help children with autism because there is a “special” affinity between them and …
