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This book explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Inequity
Chapter 1 Blind Trust, Algorithmic Discrimination, and Self-Regulation in Facebook Advertisements by Chloé L. Nurik
Chapter 2 Faking Age? Ageing and the Algorithmic Assemblage by Kim Sawchuk, Scott DeJong, and Maude Gauthier
Chapter 3 It Was All Fun and Games: Gamewashing Automated Control by Sebastián Gómez
Chapter 4 From Automating to Informating: Toward a Productive Model of Human/Machine Collaboration in Higher Education by Jordan Canzonetta
Part 2: Robots and Social Justice
Chapter 5 The Misogyny of Transhumanism by Nikila Lakshmanan
Chapter 6 Are We All Too Human? Toward an Understanding of Posthumanism and Rights by Julia A. Empey
Chapter 7 Being Sophia: What Makes the World's First Robot Citizen? by Madelaine Ley
Chapter 8 Robosexuality and Its Discontents by Nathan Rambukkana
Chapter 9 Robots as Caretakers: Understanding Long-Term Relationships Between Humans and Carebots by Jamie Foster Campbell and Kristina M. Green
Part 3: Posthuman Fictions, Futures, and Bodies
Chapter 10 Im/Material Bodies: Queering Embodiment Through Performance Art and Technology" by Joep Bouma
Chapter 11 Estranged World: Tenets of Xenofeminism and Tropes of Automated Alienation in Contemporary Alien Films by Christopher M. Cox
Chapter 12 Simulation and Synesthesia in Rez: Virtual Reality and the Queer Erotechnics of Becoming-Machinic by tobias c. van Veen
About the Contributors
About the author
Nathan Rambukkanais assistant professor in communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
