Computers Voice
Computers Voice A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talkAlthough computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few…
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Computers Voice
A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talkAlthough computer-based personal assistants like Siri are increasingly ubiquitous, few users stop to ask what it means that some assistants are gendered female, others male. By examining how gender is built into these devices, author Liz W. Why is Star Trek's computer coded as female, while HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard as male?
She then moves on to an intrepid Faber explores contentious questions around gender: its fundamental constructedness, the rigidity of the gender binary, and culturally situated attitudes on male and female embodiment.Faber begins by considering talking spaceships like those in Star Trek, the film Dark Star, and the TV series Quark, revealing the ideologies that underlie space-age progress.