The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber

Description: The Computer’s VoiceFrom Star Trek to Siri2020 • Author: Liz W. FaberNEW paperback copy"Although computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. Why is Star Trek’s computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male? By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment."

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Book Title: The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Subjects: Engineering & Technology

Subject: Computers, Star Trek, AI, Gender Studies

Item Length: 8.5in.

Item Height: 0.7in.

Item Width: 5.5in.

Author: Liz w. Faber

Publication Name: Computer's Voice : from Star Trek to Siri

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Publication Year: 2020

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 0 Oz

Number of Pages: 256 Pages