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040			_aDLC _ben _cDLC _dDLC
050	0	0	_aDUCE TJ211.4963
100	1		_aRobertson, J, _eauthor. _q Jennifer,Robertson,
245	1	0	_aRobo sapiens japanicus : _brobots, gender, family, and the Japanese nation / _cJennifer Robertson.
260			_aCalifornia: _bUniversity of California Press, _c2018
264		1	_aOakland, California : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_axiii, 260p. ; _c24 cm _bill.;
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots--humanoids, androids, animaloids--are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aHuman-robot interaction _zJapan.
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