Lai-Tze Fan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lai-Tze Fan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lai-Tze |
| FAMILY NAME | Fan |
| SIGNATURE | FAN L |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7271-2160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reverse Engineering the Gendered Design of Amazon’s Alexa
This article examines the gendered design of Amazon Alexa’s voice-driven capabilities, or, skills, in order to better understand how Alexa, as an AI assistant, mirrors traditionally feminized labour and sociocultural expectations. While Alexa’s code is closed source — meaning that the code is not available to be viewed, copied, or edited — certain features of the code architecture may be identified through methods akin to reverse engineering and …
Introduction
This special issue of *Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies* takes materiality as the critical touchstone for a new comparative literary and media studies. We ask: How can an examination of the modes of inscription across media, platforms, and interfaces draw greater attention to what is often ignored in critical conversations about texts, objects, and bodies; how can such an investigation attend to the vitality of their material…
Material Matters in Digital Representation
In a digital era of representation, where screen content is abstracted from material objects/apparatuses, how do we still associate “text” and “book” with materiality? This essay analyzes Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes as a “literature of disembodiment”—experimental print texts that represent objects from which materiality is erased
Convergence Culture Reconsidered
The conference was the third in a series of transatlantic conferences initially funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). It thus formed a follow-up to the conferences on Transmedial Approaches to Space and Gender (organized by Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner, York University of Toronto, in 2011) and Mediation and Mediatization (organized by Jutta Ernst, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz/ Germersheim, in 2012
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Convergence Culture Reconsidered
The conference was the third in a series of transatlantic conferences initially funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). It thus formed a follow-up to the conferences on Transmedial Approaches to Space and Gender (organized by Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner, York University of Toronto, in 2011) and Mediation and Mediatization (organized by Jutta Ernst, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz/ Germersheim, in 2012
Material Matters in Digital Representation
In a digital era of representation, where screen content is abstracted from material objects/apparatuses, how do we still associate “text” and “book” with materiality? This essay analyzes Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes as a “literature of disembodiment”—experimental print texts that represent objects from which materiality is erased
Reverse Engineering the Gendered Design of Amazon’s Alexa
This article examines the gendered design of Amazon Alexa’s voice-driven capabilities, or, skills, in order to better understand how Alexa, as an AI assistant, mirrors traditionally feminized labour and sociocultural expectations. While Alexa’s code is closed source — meaning that the code is not available to be viewed, copied, or edited — certain features of the code architecture may be identified through methods akin to reverse engineering and …
Introduction
This special issue of *Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies* takes materiality as the critical touchstone for a new comparative literary and media studies. We ask: How can an examination of the modes of inscription across media, platforms, and interfaces draw greater attention to what is often ignored in critical conversations about texts, objects, and bodies; how can such an investigation attend to the vitality of their material…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Digital Media and Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · AI in Service Interactions (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Appeal (1 work)