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SUMMARY:Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Roberston \nIn humans\, gender–femininity\, masculinity–is an array of performed behaviors\, from dressing in certain clothes to walking and talking in certain ways. These behaviors are both socially and historically shaped\, but are also contingent upon many situational influences\, including individual choices. Female and male bodies alike can perform a variety of femininities and masculinities. What can human gender(ed) practices and performances tell us about how humanoid robots are gendered\, and vice versa? Jennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace. She shows that Japanese roboticists assign gender to their creations based on rigid assumptions about female and male sex and gender roles. Thus\, humanoid robots can productively be understood as the vanguard of a “posthuman sexism\,” and are being developed in a socio-political climate of reactionary conservatism. \nCo-Sponsored by Cool Japan and Foreign Languages and Literature.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gendering-robots-posthuman-sexism-in-japan/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Authorship\, Appropriation\, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
DESCRIPTION:A fluid text is any work that exists in multiple versions. What are the ethics and legality in the creation\, sharing\, and ownership of textual versions? What are the boundaries of textual appropriation? How does technology abet appropriation; how might it assist in the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up? \nHofstra University professor John Bryant explores the larger applications of the notion of fluid text to culture\, and in particular identity formation in a multicultural democracy. Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and is a visiting professor at American University. She founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse\, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats\, and to research the effects of these threats on free expression.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/authorship-appropriation-and-the-fluid-text/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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