The Computer's Voice
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Jump to navigationJump to searchFaber, Liz W. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Blurb circulated by Jeffrey A. Weinstock soliciting reviewers for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, e-mail dated 23 January 2021.
Considering Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Her, and more, 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. Going beyond current scholarship on robots and AI to focus on voice-interactive computers, The Computer’s Voice breaks new ground in questions surrounding media, technology, and gender.
See for the films indicated and and the general theme of gendering computers.
RDE, finishing, 1Ap21
ISBN 978-1-5179-0976-5 | paperback | $27.00
