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Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves

Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics

PhilosophyTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138065668
ISBN13: 9781138065666
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 20 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Various 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? Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing on Aristotle and contemporary work on social ontology.

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