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The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
University of Minnesota Press, 2020 Paper: 978-1-5179-0976-5 | Cloth: 978-1-5179-0975-8 Library of Congress Classification TK7882.S65F33 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 006.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress. She then moves on to an intrepid decade-by-decade investigation of computer voices, tracing the evolution from the masculine voices of the ’70s and ’80s to the feminine ones of the ’90s and ’00s. Faber ends her account in the present, with incisive looks at the film Her and Siri herself. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender. It makes important contributions to conversations around the gender gap and the increasing acceptance of transgender people. See other books on: Genres | Mass media and women | Psycholinguistics | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Voice See other titles from University of Minnesota Press |
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