The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture

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The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture

Edited by: Leopoldina Fortunati and Autumn Edwards

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 3 | De Gruyter Handbooks of Digital Transformation

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The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture provides a comprehensive discussion of how social robots take form, function, and meaning for individuals, relationships, cultures, and societies. Through a path-breaking integration of perspectives coming from sociology, communication and media, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology, political science, and science and technology studies, it focuses on the critical and social meaning of present developments in social robotic technologies. This book looks at artificial agents – from voice-based assistants to humanoid robots— as their use transforms private and public contexts and gives rise to both new possibilities and new perils for human being and becoming, organizations as well as social structures and institutions. The handbook traces the consequences and key problems of social robotics across broad social contexts in both public and political as well as domestic and intimate spaces. Further, it attends carefully to the implications of social robotics for various human identity groups, including those based on gender, ethnicity, culture, class, ability, and age. Deep attention to interdisciplinarity, inclusivity, ethics, and socio-cultural futures serves as the guiding inspiration behind each contribution within this handbook.

asks new questions about the fascinating world of virtual assistants and humanoids

explains why the corporeality of artificial agents matters

offers a unique perspective on social robots

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Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.

Autumn Edwards, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Leopoldina Fortunati and Autumn Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Section 1: Robots in Culture and Society
Future Presence: Living with Social Robots Matthew Lombard, Kun Xu and Melissa E. Selverian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Representing Robots in Popular Culture Mauro Sarrica, Simone Natale and Elda Danese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Designing Robots That are Accepted in Human Social Environments: Anthropomorphism, the Intentional Stance, Cultural Norms and Values, and Societal Implications Serena Marchesi and Agnieszka Wykowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Are Robotic Bodies (Part of) Social Bodies? Luisa Damiano and Paul Dumouchel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Persons or Things: The Role of Robots in Society David J. Gunkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Automated Masspersonal Social Engineering Robert W. Gehl and Sean Lawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Section 2: Humanistic and Social Scientific Perspectives
Linguistics
AI and Human Writing: Collaboration or Appropriation? Naomi S. Baron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Law
Policies, Regulation, and Legal Perspectives on Social Robots Caja Thimm and Laura Thimm-Braun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
How Social Robots Affect Privacy: Navigating the Landscape Christoph Lutz, Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Sociology
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and the Evolution of the Social Sciences Richard Ling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
Human Interactions With (Embodied) AI: The Future of Authenticity in Human–AI Relation(ship)s Astrid Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Psychology and Neuroscience
Mind Perception During and After Interacting with Artificial Agents Monica Pivetti and Silvia Di Battista Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
How People Perceive Social Robots: The Case of Gender Friederike Eyssel and Giulia Perugia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Relating with Social Robots: Issues of Sex, Love, Intimacy, Emotion, Attachment, and Companionship Kate Devlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Real or Pretend? How Children Ontologize Social Robots as Mental and Moral Others Rachel L. Severson, Sarah E. Sweezy and Thomas M. Macko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Communication and Computer Sciences
Rethinking Communication between Humans and Social Robots Andrea L. Guzman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Interacting with Social Robots: The Influence of their Distinctive Cues, Behavioral Capabilities, and Affordances on Social Interaction and Well-being Patric R. Spence, Chad Edwards and Matthew Craig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Integrating Big-Data Tools to Study AI and Human–Machine Communication: Methodology Strengths, Future Directions, and Applications Xianlin Jin, Patric R. Spence and Seungahn Nah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Social Robots and Children: A Field in Development Jochen Peter and Caroline L. van Straten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Section 3: Contexts of Human–Robot Interaction
Anthropomorphizing Voice Assistants: A Research Agenda for Human–AI Relationships Yolande Strengers, Thao Phan, Melisa Duque and Kari Dahlgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Domestic Appliances and Household Robots: The Changing Landscape of Housework and Family Leopoldina Fortunati and Autumn Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Ability and Disability: Social Robots and Accessibility, Disability Justice, and the Socially Constructed Normal Body Marco Dehnert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
Growing Old Together: The Promise and Challenge of Social Robots for Older Adults Sawyer Collins and Selma Š Šabanović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Power and Synchrony in Human Collaboration with Exoskeletons J. Nan Wilkenfeld, Norah E. Dunbar, Chengyu Fang and Divya Srinivasan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489

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eBook published on:

September 23, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783110792270

Hardcover published on:

September 23, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110792157

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

7

Main content:

494

Coloured Illustrations:

4

Tables:

6

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792270

eBook ISBN: 9783110792270

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110792157

Keywords for this book

Digital Sociology; Artificial Agents; Robots; Robotic Cultures; Robotic Technologies

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Scholars and students of Sociology, Political Theory, Engineering and Computer Science.

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