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Turkle and The Robots Overview of Alone Together Dr. R. Redekopp
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Turkle and the Robots

May 09, 2015

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Partial summary of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together book
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Page 1: Turkle and the Robots

Turkle and The Robots

Overview of Alone TogetherDr. R. Redekopp

Page 2: Turkle and the Robots

Robots as Companions

“We reduce relationship and come to see this as the norm” (p.55)

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Robots as Companions

Alterity – seeing the world through the eyes of someone else

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Robots as Companions

“Without alterity, there can be no empathy.”

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Robots as Companions

“Children need to be with people to develop mutuality and empathy” (p. 56)

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Robots as Companions

Attachment without responsibility – artificial emotion.

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Robots as Companions

A robot “promises friendship but can only deliver performance” (p. 101)

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Robots as Companions

Confiding very personal info – like a confession booth?

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Robots as Companions

“We put robots on a terrain of meaning, but they don’t know what they mean. And they don’t mean anything at all.” (p. 124)

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Robots as Companions

Robots make it easier to leave the elderly alone – without the guilt.

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Robots as Companions

We try to cover for the robots to make them seem better than they are.

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Robots as Companions

The more robots can do, the more we attribute ‘caring’ to them.

We interpret the robot’s emotions for them.