Friendship, Robots, and Social Media - False Friends and Second Selves

Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing on Aristotle and contemporary work on social ontology.

List of contents

Introduction Part I: Friendship 1 Repeatable Reasons, Irreplaceable Friends 2 What Shared Identity Means In Friendship 3 Why Bad People Can't Be Good Friends Part II: Robots 4 False Friends And False Coinage: A Tool For Navigating The Ethics Of Sociable Robots 5 What's Wrong With Robot 'Friends' For Lonely Seniors? 6 Counterfeit Currency Versus Monopoly Money: Using Appearances To Build Capacities 7 Should You Buy Yourself A 'Friend'? Ethics Of Consumer Markets For Robot Companions Part III: Social Media 8 Humans Aren't Cows: An Aristotelian Defense Of Technologically-Mediated Friendship 9 Taking Control Of Conversations Through Technologically-Mediated Communication 10 What Words Can't Say: Emoji And Other Non-Verbal Elements Of Technologically-Mediated Communication 11 The Moral Import Of Medium

About the author

Alexis M. Elder is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her research focuses on friendship and social technologies. Her publications include "Excellent Online Friendships: An Aristotelian Defense of Social Media" in Ethics and Information Technology, and "Zhuangzi on Friendship and Death" in Southern Journal of Philosophy.

Summary

Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing on Aristotle and contemporary work on social ontology.

Product details

• Authors: Elder, Alexis M. Elder, Alexis M. (University of Minnesota Duluth Elder
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138065666
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06566-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social interaction, Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Social and ethical issues