Miriam Lind
Biographic Data
| ID | 3810074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Lind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Lind |
| SIGNATURE | LIND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Viadrina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2314-7641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Not binary, not human
In late 2018, a third legal gender category (called divers ‘diverse’) was established in German legislation. The legal recognition of a nonbinary gender in Germany is juxtaposed against a non-existent linguistic inventory for speaking to or about nonbinary individuals: there are currently neither established formal forms of address nor a gender-neutral third person pronoun that is suitable for human referents and in wider use, despite German havi…
Alexa’s agency
Voice-based, spoken interaction with artificial agents has become a part of everyday life in many countries: artificial voices guide us through our bank’s customer service, Amazon’s Alexa tells us which groceries we need to buy, and we can discuss central motifs in Shakespeare’s work with ChatGPT. Language, which is largely still seen as a uniquely human capacity, is now increasingly produced—or so it appears—by non-human entities, contributing t…
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants
With the popularisation of intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) like Amazon’s Alexa and the Google Assistant, natural language-based interaction with machines is increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. The conceptualisation of these tools as agentive assistants who help with a variety of tasks in both the household and at work is guided by their marketing: When Apple introduced the Siri-technology at their keynote event in 2011, the syst…
When Dogs Talk
Pets using “talking buttons” to ostensibly tell their owner about their thoughts and needs have become a huge success on social media. With buttons that upon activation play a prerecorded message, these devices are marketed as tools in teaching human language to animals in order to allow them to “speak their minds.” This article investigates these practices of technologically mediated human-dog interactions through the analysis of social media vi…
Meowmy, Pawrents and Menschenwelpen ‘human puppies’
Looking at cute animal images and videos has become a popular online pastime and animals themselves increasingly appear as actors in social media who have their own accounts and profiles from which they ‘speak’ to and ‘interact’ with us. This development goes hand in hand with a change in human-animal relations in most of Western cultures, where pets – especially cats and dogs – are more and more often seen and treated as family members while the…
How to do gender with names
Most trans people change their name in accordance to their gender in the process of transitioning. The decision for a new name can take place at any stage during an individual’s exploration of their identity, typically coming into use when the individual comes out to others and asks to be addressed with this new name. Whether or not this new name is accepted and adopted by others is not only a matter of time, but correlates to the acceptance of t…
Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 der eingegangenen Bücher
Eingegangene Bücher (ausführliche Besprechung vorbehalten)
The neutering neuter – grammatical gender and the dehumanisation of women in German
Grammatical gender in German has traditionally been described as a rather arbitrary system (Helbig and Buscha 1988). This is not the case in regard to terms of person reference, where natural gender assignment is the norm: Masculine and feminine grammatical gender largely correlate with the extralinguistic assignment of male and female gender. Neuter gender predominantly denotes inanimate entities (Köpcke and Zubin 1996, 2009). The use of neutral…
The neutering neuter – grammatical gender and the dehumanisation of women in German
Grammatical gender in German has traditionally been described as a rather arbitrary system (Helbig and Buscha 1988). This is not the case in regard to terms of person reference, where natural gender assignment is the norm: Masculine and feminine grammatical gender largely correlate with the extralinguistic assignment of male and female gender. Neuter gender predominantly denotes inanimate entities (Köpcke and Zubin 1996, 2009). The use of neutral…
The neutering neuter – grammatical gender and the dehumanisation of women in German
Grammatical gender in German has traditionally been described as a rather arbitrary system (Helbig and Buscha 1988). This is not the case in regard to terms of person reference, where natural gender assignment is the norm: Masculine and feminine grammatical gender largely correlate with the extralinguistic assignment of male and female gender. Neuter gender predominantly denotes inanimate entities (Köpcke and Zubin 1996, 2009). The use of neutral…
Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 der eingegangenen Bücher
Eingegangene Bücher (ausführliche Besprechung vorbehalten)
How to do gender with names
Most trans people change their name in accordance to their gender in the process of transitioning. The decision for a new name can take place at any stage during an individual’s exploration of their identity, typically coming into use when the individual comes out to others and asks to be addressed with this new name. Whether or not this new name is accepted and adopted by others is not only a matter of time, but correlates to the acceptance of t…
Speaking, but having no voice. Negotiating agency in advertisements for intelligent personal assistants
With the popularisation of intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) like Amazon’s Alexa and the Google Assistant, natural language-based interaction with machines is increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. The conceptualisation of these tools as agentive assistants who help with a variety of tasks in both the household and at work is guided by their marketing: When Apple introduced the Siri-technology at their keynote event in 2011, the syst…
When Dogs Talk
Pets using “talking buttons” to ostensibly tell their owner about their thoughts and needs have become a huge success on social media. With buttons that upon activation play a prerecorded message, these devices are marketed as tools in teaching human language to animals in order to allow them to “speak their minds.” This article investigates these practices of technologically mediated human-dog interactions through the analysis of social media vi…
Meowmy, Pawrents and Menschenwelpen ‘human puppies’
Looking at cute animal images and videos has become a popular online pastime and animals themselves increasingly appear as actors in social media who have their own accounts and profiles from which they ‘speak’ to and ‘interact’ with us. This development goes hand in hand with a change in human-animal relations in most of Western cultures, where pets – especially cats and dogs – are more and more often seen and treated as family members while the…
Alexa’s agency
Voice-based, spoken interaction with artificial agents has become a part of everyday life in many countries: artificial voices guide us through our bank’s customer service, Amazon’s Alexa tells us which groceries we need to buy, and we can discuss central motifs in Shakespeare’s work with ChatGPT. Language, which is largely still seen as a uniquely human capacity, is now increasingly produced—or so it appears—by non-human entities, contributing t…
Not binary, not human
In late 2018, a third legal gender category (called divers ‘diverse’) was established in German legislation. The legal recognition of a nonbinary gender in Germany is juxtaposed against a non-existent linguistic inventory for speaking to or about nonbinary individuals: there are currently neither established formal forms of address nor a gender-neutral third person pronoun that is suitable for human referents and in wider use, despite German havi…
Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · German (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · AI in Service Interactions (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)