Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Fri, Elder Paperback..

Name: Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Fri, Elder Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Friendship, Robots, and Social MediaFalse Friends and Second Selves\nAuthor(s): Alexis M. Elder\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367889432, 978-0367889432\nSynopsis\nVarious emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? In this book, Alexis Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing on Aristotle and contemporary work on social ontology, and then uses it to evaluate the real value of social robotics and emerging social technologies.\n\nIn the first part of the book Elder develops a robust and rigorous ontology of friendship: what it is, how it functions, what harms it, and how it relates to familiar ethical and philosophical questions about character, value, and well-being. In Part II she applies this ontology to emerging trends in soc.