Perceiving the future through new communication technologies : robots, AI and everyday life /: robots, AI and everyday life. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James Katz, Juliet Floyd, Katie Schiepers.
• Editors: Katz, James Everett; Floyd, Juliet, 1960-; Schiepers, Katie
• Contents: Part I Conceptual Framework.-1. Introduction.- 2. Media Are Dead, Long Live Media: Apparatgeist's Capacity for Understanding Media Evolution.- 3. Selves and Forms of Life in the Digital Age: A Philosophical Exploration of Apparatgeist.- 4. Shared Screen Time: The Role of the Mobile Phone in Local Social Interaction in 2000 and 2020.- 5. Possibility or Peril? Exploring the Emotional Choreography of Social Robots in Inter- and Intrapersonal Lives.- 6. The Artificialistic Fallacy.- Part II Future Technologies in Action.-7. Thing or No-Thing: Robots Are Not Just a Thing, Not yet a Human. An Essay in Thinking Through Media by Hermeneutics of Difference.- 8. Apparatgesit of Pepper-kun: Exploration of emerging cultural meanings of a social robot in Japan.- 9. Is it Just a Tool or is it a Friend? Exploring Chinese users' interaction and relationship with smart speakers.- 10. Likable and Competent, Fictional and Real: Impression Management of a Social Robot.- Part III Looking Back and Forward.- 11. One-Way Tele-contact: Norbert Wiener's Yesterday's Tomorrow.- 12. Future Shock Or Future Chic?: Human Orientation to the Future(s) in the Context of Technological Proliferation.- 13. Voicing the Future: Folk Epistemic Understandings of Smart and Datafied Lives.- 14. Socio-technical Issues Concerning the Future of New Communication Technology, Robots, and AI.-15. Conclusions.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 001.30285; Digital humanities; Technology -- Social aspects; Robotics -- Social aspects; Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030848835
• Related ISBNs: 9783030848828
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