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

ISBN-13: 9781138065666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

USA) Alexis M. (University of Minnesota Duluth Elder

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.