Exploration of Media and Humanity

Project Inspirations

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READINGS

  • Artificial Intelligence

Benedict, Tay., Jung, Younbo and Park, Taezoon. “When stereotypes meet robots: the double-edge sword of robot gender and personality in human–robot interaction.” Computers in Human Behavior 38 (2014): 75-84.

Brooks, RA (1990). “Elephants don’t play chess”. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 6 (1–2): 139–159. doi:10.1016/s0921-8890(05)80025-9.

Brunette, E. S., Flemmer, R. C., & Flemmer, C. L. (2009, February). A review of artificial intelligence. In 2009 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (pp. 385-392). Ieee.

Buchanan, B. G. (2005, Winter). A (very) brief history of artificial intelligence. AI Magazine, 26(4), 53+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A145633110/EAIM?u=duke_perkins&sid=EAIM&xid=e125e572.

Crawford, Kate and Joler, Vladen. 2018. Anatomy of an AI System. https://anatomyof.ai/

Haenlein, M., & Kaplan, A. (2019). A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: On the Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence. California Management Review, 61(4), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125619864925. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.lib.duke.edu/doi/full/10.1177/0008125619864925?utm_source=summon&utm_medium=discovery-provider#articleCitationDownloadContainer.

Schaffer, Simon. 1999. “Enlightened Automata”, in Clark et al. (Eds), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 126–165.

  • Embodiment & Affect

Dourish, Paul. 2004. “‘Being-in-the-World’: Embodied Interaction.” Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. The MIT Press.

Kim, Kangsoo et al. “Does a Digital Assistant Need a Body? The Influence of Visual Embodiment and Social Behavior on the Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents in AR,” 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2018, pp. 105-114, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR.2018.00039.

Massumi, Brian. Ontopower: War, Power, and the State of Perception ((Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015), p. 49.

Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke UP, 2002.

Roy, S. “Affect, Embodiment and Artificial Intelligence in Spike Jonze’s Her[J].” Ars Artium, 2021: 51.

Spinoza, Benedict de. The Ethics. Translated by R. H. Elwes, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000.

Wegenstein, Bernadette. “Body.” Critical Terms for Media Studies, edited by W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N Hansen, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 19-34.

  • Algorithm

O’neil, Cathy. Weapons of math destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. Crown, 2016.

Ruckenstein, Minna, and Natasha Dow Schüll. “The datafication of health.” Annual Review of Anthropology 46 (2017): 261-278.

Striphas, Ted. “Algorithmic culture.” European journal of cultural studies 18.4-5 (2015): 395-412.

  • Digital Feminism

Celine Keller, “Why the Zombie Haunts the Cyborg – Unveiling the Inherent Racism of Transhumanism”. https://www.krustelkram.com/utopian-dreaming/transhumanism-zombies-cyborgs-sylvia-wynter

Hayles, N. Katherine. “Unfinished work: From cyborg to cognisphere.” Theory, Culture & Society 23.7-8 (2006): 159-166.

Haraway, Donna. “A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late 20th century.” The international handbook of virtual learning environments. Springer, Dordrecht, 2006. 117-158.

Parvin, Nassim. “Look up and smile! Seeing through Alexa’s algorithmic gaze.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5.1 (2019): 1-11.

Russell, Legacy. “Glitch feminism: A manifesto.” London: Verso 11 (2020): 29-29.

FILMS & Events

Blade Runner, 1982

Blade Runner 2049, 2017

Her, 2013

Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com), “Saudi Arabia Grants Citizenship to Robot Sophia: DW: 28.10.2017,” DW.COM, accessed May 10, 2021, https://www.dw.com/en/saudi-arabia-grants-citizenship-to-robot-sophia/a-41150856.

Metz, Cade. 2016. “In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future.” Wired, March 16, 2016. https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-redefined-future/

GET IN TOUCH

Interviews & Other Videos:

Celine Keller, “Why the Zombie Haunts the Cyborg – Unveiling the Inherent Racism of Transhumanism”. https://www.krustelkram.com/utopian-dreaming/transhumanism-zombies-cyborgs-sylvia-wynter

Hanson, David. Speech on CogX Global Leadership Summit. Day 1 CogX 2018 – Ethics | CogX 2019, YouTube (YouTube, 2018, 6:10:53-6:10:59), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVJSxhMAFE