1st Edition
The Naked Android Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze
By Julie Carpenter
Copyright 2025
296 Pages
8 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
296 Pages
8 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
296 Pages
8 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
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The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used.
The introduction of the “human gaze” articulates how peoples’ expectations and perceptions about robots are ultimately based on deeply personal... Read more
Dedication
TOC
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 01 Welcome home, robots
Chapter 02 Robots in the family
Chapter 03 AI, robots, and the gaze of gods
Chapter 04 Science fiction robots as metaphors, muses, and allies
Chapter 05 Promises of sex robots
Chapter 06 The object of a robot gaze
References
Biography
Julie Carpenter, PhD, is a social scientist who explores human behaviors with emerging technologies, often forms of AI. A great deal of her research has focused on human attachment to robots and other forms of artificial intelligence. She is an external research fellow in the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University and has held this role since 2015.
