Voice Assistants in Private Homes - Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse

Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, media and data practices under platformized conditions and new interfaces. This collection thus brings together perspectives from media sociology, media studies, media linguistics and domestication research.

About the author

Dagmar Hoffmann (Dr. phil.), Soziologin, ist Privatdozentin an der Universität Münster. Sie vertritt die Professur Medien und Kommunikation an der Universität Siegen.David Waldecker (Dr. phil.) ist Soziologe und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 »Medien der Kooperation« an der Universität Siegen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Medien- und Techniksoziologie (insbesondere auditiver und digital vernetzter Medien), Musik- und Kultursoziologie, Methoden qualitativer Sozialforschung und Sozialtheorie, insbesondere Kritische Theorie.

Summary

Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, media and data practices under platformized conditions and new interfaces. This collection thus brings together perspectives from media sociology, media studies, media linguistics and domestication research.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephan Habscheid (Editor), Tim Hector (Editor), Dagma Hoffmann (Editor), Dagmar Hoffmann (Editor), Dagmar Hoffmann et al (Editor), David Waldecker (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9783837672008
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7200-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 30 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 618 g
• Illustrations: 44 SW-Abb., 13 Farbabb.
• Series: Media in Action
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Media, Media Studies, Digitalization, Digital Media, Sociology of Media, Language, Media Aesthetics, Linguistics, Privacy, Surveillance, Interfaces, Domestication, Data Practices, Human-Computer-Interaction