PWR 1HR Lecture 3: Reading Questions for Sherry Turkle--S16
19 Apr 2016
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Reading questions for s. turkle, authenticity in the age of digital companions . In class together we will perform a preliminary rhetorical analysis of turkle"s essay. In order to do that more effectively, it will help if you come to class having done some preliminary thinking about what turkle is saying and doing. It belongs to the future to determine whether robots could ultimately deserve" the emotional responses they are now eliciting. What do you think of the way she phrases it? (how else could this phenomenon be described, to what different effect?) In the final section, turkle begins and ends with two extended anecdotes, one about the. Galapagos turtle, the other about her friend richard talking about the prospect of a robotic health aide.
