‘She’s nice company and a good friend’: thinking with Haraway to reconceptualise children’s playful interactions with Alexa in the family home
Book chapter
Sakr, M. 2021. ‘She’s nice company and a good friend’: thinking with Haraway to reconceptualise children’s playful interactions with Alexa in the family home. in: Mikats, J., Kink-Hampersberger, S. and Oates-Indruchová, L. (ed.) Creative families: Gender and technologies of everyday life Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 167-188
Chapter title | ‘She’s nice company and a good friend’: thinking with Haraway to reconceptualise children’s playful interactions with Alexa in the family home |
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Authors | Sakr, M. |
Abstract | The aims of this chapter are to explore the ways in which children think about Alexa – the conversational agent that inhabits Amazon’s The Echo device – and what happens when they playfully engage with it/her in a family context. In particular, the chapter seeks to examine the potentials of children’s play and playfulness with Alexa through Donna Haraway’s concepts of ‘the cyborg’ and ‘making kin’. In Haraway’s post-human philosophy, the cyborg as an entity generates possibilities for troubling a number of divides that we live by (human/non-human; male/female; mind/body). [...] |
Research Group | Centre for Education Research and Scholarship (CERS) |
Page range | 167-188 |
Book title | Creative families: Gender and technologies of everyday life |
Editors | Mikats, J., Kink-Hampersberger, S. and Oates-Indruchová, L. |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Series | Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9783030708023 |
Electronic | 9783030708030 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 02 Jun 2021 |
06 Jun 2021 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Jul 2021 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published in Creative families - Gender and technologies of everyday life. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Sakr, Mona (2021) ‘She’s nice company and a good friend’: thinking with Haraway to reconceptualise children’s playful interactions with Alexa in the family home. In: Mikats, Jana, Kink-Hampersberger, Susanne and Oates-Indruchová, Libora, (eds) Creative families - Gender and technologies of everyday life, Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 167-188. https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70803-0_8 is available online at: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030708023 |
Additional information | Part of the Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference book series (PSMKRD). |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70803-0_8 |
Language | English |
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