Personhood and Social Robotics

Jones, Raya A.

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“…The journal's special issue brought together a multidisciplinary cast of 29 writers with expertise in either child development or robotics. The debate had a distinctive multivoiced character not only because the participants voiced dissimilar views, but also because even convergent views were informed by different disciplinary platforms, and their proponents interacted differently with the topic (Jones 2016). Nevertheless, an overall coherence emerged, firstly, due to the fact that a shared focus of attention had been set in the target paper.…”

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“…Secondly, since all the papers shared a focus, it was possible to compare their orientations. The analysis revealed thematic differences along three dimensions irreducible to each other (utopian versus dystopian leanings, factual versus speculative bases for argumentation, and technology-led versus psychology-led expositions), constituting the dimensionality of the debate as a whole (Jones 2016).…”

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Concerning the Apperception of Robot-Assisted Childcare

Jones

2018

Philos. Technol.

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This essay looks askance at how robot-assisted childcare is constructed in the public domain of the Internet. Complex interactions of rhetorical manoeuvres, narratives and postnarrativity, and semiotic slippages may channel the apperception of this application of robotics. The prospect of robots in childcare roles is exceptionally contentious, for it connotes interference with the child-caregiver attachment bond. The industry's response to psychology-informed concerns is to 'rebrand' the product as a robot companion for a child or as a home robot for the family. A technocentric bias in information disseminated online creates an illusion of expertise and may endorse technology-driven morality.

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Concerning the Apperception of Robot-Assisted Childcare

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2018

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“…The following example illustrates the process. To minimise the conflation of the voice-in-the-text with that of its author I draw illustrative examples from a study that analysed publications (lab reports, surveys, and conceptual papers) in the engineering field of social robotics (Jones, 2016). When interrogating those texts, I was less interested in their authors as persons than in the collective voice(s) that perpetuate particular representations of the human being by virtue of textual dynamics.…”

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“…Consider the sentence ‘I feel like a robot’, extracted from someone’s self-portrayal as a female incapable of feeling emotions (Jones, 2016). Discursive psychologists may discuss the trope’s function in terms of interpretative repertoires.…”

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Towards dialogic epistemology: the problem of the text

Jones

2016

Qualitative Research

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This article considers epistemological implications of Bakhtin's dialogism. Bakhtin urged scholars in the human sciences to treat a text as having a voice of its own, to be attuned to its creativity and originality, and to resist conflating one's image of the author with the actual person who has produced the text. Importing his ideas into the social sciences creates a site of tensions at the disciplines' boundaries. Yet his characterisation of dialogue applies also to qualitative researchers' interactions with nonfiction material. Bakhtin contended that a text as an utterance is a unique unrepeatable event; and that a voice is immanent in how the text itself operates: its placement in a dialogical sequence (answerability), its plan (purpose) and the realisation of the plan. Attention to these dynamics could constitute a formative step in the epistemic process of qualitative research, as concrete examples illustrate. A concept of a 'dialogic triangle' (utterance, response and their interrelation) is proposed. The dialogic nature of consciousness, the dialogic nature of human life itself. The single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human existence is the open-ended dialogue. … To live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree, and so forth. In this dialogue a person participates wholly and throughout his whole life: with his eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit, with his whole body and deeds. (Bakhtin 1984: 293) Bakhtin wrote the above in 1961 when reworking his 1929 monograph on Dostoevsky. The foundation of dialogism in literary criticism is often treated as secondary to psychology when 'Bakhtin' migrates to the social sciences. Although he theorised about human consciousness through literature-not only in the tradition of the Russian intelligentsia but also in parallel with Western thinkers such as Paul Ricoeur-Bakhtin was interested in literary prose per se as an expression of human existence. Bakhtin (1986) described scholarship in the humanities as a special kind of dialogue. It comprises complex interrelations between the given text and a context created by the scholar in the course of questioning, refuting, etc. Having established that an utterance is a unique event every time something is read or heard afresh, he raises the question of 'whether science can deal with such absolutely unrepeatable individualities as utterances'-and assures us, the 'answer is, of course, it can', for the scientific object of study should be 'the specific form and function of this

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Humans Enchanting Robots

Musiał

2019

Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI

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