Glitch Studies and Smart Speakers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Introduction to the Volume 9
4. I Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Conceptual Considerations
5. The DataEconomy@Home 33
6. Voice Assistants, Capitalism, and the Surveillance of Social Reproduction 57
7. Machines as Partners 77
8. Human-Machine Interaction as a Complex Socio-Linguistic Practice 105
9. II Linguistic Exchange with Voice Assistants as a Practical Problem
10. “Oh, Now I have to Speak” 147
11. Stylizing the Ideal User 181
12. Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating Voice-Controlled Assistance Technologies 207
13. III Privacy and Data Protection as Practical Problems
14. Glitch Studies and Smart Speakers 243
15. The Role of Imagined Sociotechnical Affordances in Shaping Experiences of Privacy in Smart Speakers 263
16. Mostly Harmless? Everyday Smart Speaker Use and Pragmatic Fatalism 291
17. How to Make GDPR a Threat Again 319
18. IV Technical Infrastructures as a Practical Problem
19. Demystification of Technology 331
20. Innovating Alexa amid the Rise of Large Language Models 365
21. List of Authors 403