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Mechanical Maids: Digital Assistants, Domestic Spaces, and the Specter(s) of Black Women’s Labor

Description:

This dissertation explores how dominant U.S. constructions of race, class, and gender are embedded into and inscribed onto artificially intelligent virtual assistants and the labors they perform. I examine virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, interrogating their complex relationship to humanness, the tasks they are programmed...

Keyword:

haunting, media, labor, Black, domestic, and technology

Subject:

African American studies, Gender studies, and Film studies

Creator:

Owens, Golden M.

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16772 and etdadmin_upload_1014053