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Friendship, Robots, and Social Media by Elder, Alexis M. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Friendship, Robots, and Social Media about?

Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction 10 Part I Friendship 24 1 Repeatable Reasons, Irreplaceable Friends 26 2 What Shared Identity Means in Friendship 46 3 Why Bad People Can’t Be Good Friends 65 Part II Robots 80 4 False Friends and False Coinage: A Tool for Navigating the Ethics of Sociable Robots 82 5 What’s Wrong With Robot “Friends” for Lonely Seniors? 99 6 Counterfeit Currency Versus Monopoly Money: Using Appearances to Build Capacities 112 7 Should You Buy Yourself a “Friend”? Ethics of Consumer Markets for Robot Companions 126 Part III Social Media 146 8 Humans Aren’t Cows: An Aristotelian Defense of Technologically Mediated Friendship 148 9 Taking Control of Conversations Through Technologically Mediated Communication 171 10 What Words Can’t Say: Emoji and Other Non-Verbal Elements of Technologically Mediated Communication 187 11 The Moral Import of Medium 205 Conclusion 229 Index 234

Author

Elder, Alexis M.

Language

EN