Living with and Through Artificially Intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants: Subservience, Simultaneity and Surveillance in Late-Capitalist Cairo

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اجتماع

الملخص

The global technological field has witnessed a computing shift - from focusing on human-device use to focusing on human-device ambient and social interaction. This shift is notably accompanied by a societal one that increases desire and dependency on everyday smart technologies powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of such growing AI-enabled technologies is the virtual personal assistant (VPA). In this project, I draw on my filed-work with my four interlocuters in Cairo with their respective VPAs, Siri and Alexa. In analyzing my experiences and observations, I focus on three main themes: subservience, simultaneity and surveillance. Examining the role of gender, labor, identity, discourse, time and temporality, as well as surveillance is at the heart of this work. Guided by Haraway’s cyborgism, Marxist feminism and arguments brought forth by the post-humanities I first begin by a genealogy of the female automata, followed by dissecting gender’s role in VPA design/interaction, as well as capitalist-digital logic. I then move on to discuss the VPAs’ relationship to other digitalities, such as the calendar and smart home contrivances. Finally, I tie previous arguments and observations to how VPAs may be approached as the eyes and ears of Capitalism.

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التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة: 06fdcc3f-e2d0-490f-a7c7-e867a0bf4fa9
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نوع الوسائط: Crawler
نوع المحتوى: الرسائل العلمية
صيغة المصدر: رسائل ماجيستير
نوع الملف: pdf text
أسماء الملفات: 845495_2.pdf

بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين: [{"name_ar":"Habiba Ahmed Elsayed","title_ar":"اعداد","title_en":"Preparation"},{"name_ar":"Martina Rieker","title_ar":"اشراف","title_en":"Supervision"}]
اللغة: English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر: Living with and Through Artificially Intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants: Subservience, Simultaneity and Surveillance in Late-Capitalist Cairo

المحتوى والصفحات

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إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف: Martina Rieker
الإعداد: Habiba Ahmed Elsayed

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية

APA

Habiba Ahmed Elsayed و Martina Rieker. (2021). Living with and Through Artificially Intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants: Subservience, Simultaneity and Surveillance in Late-Capitalist Cairo. أطروحة(رسائل ماجيستير). كلية الشئون الدولية والسياسات العامة-الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة. مصر.

MLA

Habiba Ahmed Elsayed و Martina Rieker. Living with and Through Artificially Intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants: Subservience, Simultaneity and Surveillance in Late-Capitalist Cairo. 2021. كلية الشئون الدولية والسياسات العامة-الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة، رسائل ماجيستير.