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Robo sapiens japanicus
- Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation
Engelsk Hardback
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Robo sapiens japanicus
- Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation
Engelsk Hardback

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Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots-humanoids, androids, animaloids-are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780520283190
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520283198
Udg. Dato:
10 nov 2017
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
157mm
Højde:
236mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
10 nov 2017
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