Jenny Kennedy & Yolande Strengers 
Smart Wife [PDF ebook] 
Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

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The life and times of the Smart Wife-feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available.Meet the Smart Wife-at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant-a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma-sends her "master" helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out "wifework"-domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers-designed in male-dominated industries-is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It’s time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot.What’s wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes-so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife "manifesta, " proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.

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Bahasa Inggris ● Format PDF ● Halaman 320 ● ISBN 9780262360036 ● Penerbit The MIT Press ● Diterbitkan 2020 ● Diunduh 3 kali ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 8106032 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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