MDSB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Push-Button Kitty, Emily Murphy
28 Sep 2016
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Robot cat: no (major) relationship with cat: viewer: owner/ video taker (exchange/ questions) and youtube viewer (curiosity, entertainment) Who exists in the media and who can interact. Possible interactions between viewers in comments, not between viewers and cats. Form and media shapes the type of interactions we can have. Norms, expectations: discussions about processes of inclusions and exclusion o. Specific person placed at center of answer based on gender and race. Un declaration of human rights: human is to say that as humans we have certain rights o. Agency and personhood is central (hypothetical) possibility of aliens as well as computers. Self-awareness can make things like a. i a person. Maybe non-human animal person- about ideas based on intelligence and awareness. Emily murphy getting women recognized as women in canada. Relationships hitchbot had with people o: welcome, non/acceptance, aggressions. Person- free spirits- gendered (he)- vandalized, not assaulted. Stranger- relationships between strangers for trust o o o: human features.
