Robo sapiens japanicus (eBook)

Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Jennifer Robertson (Autor)

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2017
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95906-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 mass 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 robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots—humanoids, androids, and 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.

 
 

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author’s Notes

1. Robot Visions
2. Innovation as Renovation
3. Families of Future Past
4. Embodiment and Gender
5. Robot Rights vs. Human Rights
6. Cyborg-Ableism beyond the Uncanny (Valley)
7. Robot Reality Check

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: androids • animaloids • Civil Rights • Ethnographic Research • Family • gender norms • Gender Studies • Human Exceptionalism • Humanity • humanoid robots • human robot coexistence • Japan • Japanese • Japanese culture • Mass media • postindustrial society • press releases • public relations video • robot • robotic exoskeletons • robots in hospitals • robots in offices • robots in schools • robots in the home • Science Fiction • scientists • Social Media • sociocultural history • theory of the uncanny valley
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95906-X / 052095906X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95906-4 / 9780520959064