The Domestication of Voice Activated -Technology & EavesMining: Surveillance, Privacy and Gender Relations at Home
| dc.contributor.advisor | Elmer, Greg | |
| dc.contributor.author | Neville, Stephen James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-04T19:23:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-04T19:23:59Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019-06 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-12-04 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-12-04T19:23:59Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Communication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University | |
| dc.degree.level | Master's | |
| dc.degree.name | MA - Master of Arts | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis develops a case study analysis of the Amazon Echo, the first-ever voice-activated smart speaker. The domestication of the devices feminine conversational agent, Alexa, and the integration of its microphone and digital sensor technology in home environments represents a moment of radical change in the domestic sphere. This development is interpreted according to two primary force relations: historical gender patterns of domestic servitude and eavesmining (eavesdropping + datamining) processes of knowledge extraction and analysis. The thesis is framed around three pillars of study that together demonstrate: how routinization with voice-activated technology affects acoustic space and ones experiences of home; how online warm experts initiate a dialogue about the domestication of technology that disregards and ignores Amazons corporate privacy framework; and finally, how the technologys conditions of use silently result in the deployment of ever-intensifying surveillance mechanisms in home environments. Eavesmining processes are beginning to construct a new world of media and surveillance where every spoken word can potentially be heard and recorded, and speaking is inseparable from identification. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36841 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
| dc.subject | Social research | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Amazon Echo | |
| dc.subject.keywords | Alexa | |
| dc.subject.keywords | voice-activated personal assistant (VAPA) | |
| dc.subject.keywords | smart speaker | |
| dc.subject.keywords | YouTube | |
| dc.subject.keywords | unboxing technology | |
| dc.subject.keywords | domestication of new technology | |
| dc.subject.keywords | warm expert | |
| dc.subject.keywords | surveillance | |
| dc.subject.keywords | privacy | |
| dc.subject.keywords | media ecology | |
| dc.subject.keywords | feminist media studies | |
| dc.title | The Domestication of Voice Activated -Technology & EavesMining: Surveillance, Privacy and Gender Relations at Home | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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