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020			_a9780520283190 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a9780520283206 (pbk. : alk. paper)
050	0	0	_aTJ211.4963 _b.ROB 2018
100	1		_aRobertson, Jennifer, _d1953- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRobo sapiens japanicus : _brobots, gender, family, and the Japanese nation / _cJennifer Robertson.
264		1	_aOakland, California : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2018
300			_axiii, 260 pages ;
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia _bn
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aRobot visions -- Innovation as renovation -- Families of future past -- Embodiment and gender -- Robot rights vs. human rights -- Cyborg-ableism beyond the uncanny (valley) -- Robot reality check.
520			_a"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 the mass media 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 actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots--humanoids, androids, 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"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aHuman-robot interaction
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