Notes from the Desk Set
A Secretary’s History of Work and Surveillance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22126641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessa Lingel (University of Pennsylvania), K Crawford (0000-0001-9972-7194, Microsoft (United States)) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2380-3312 • E-ISSN: 2380-3312 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.28968/cftt.v6i1.29949 |
| OpenAlex | W3027078703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 20 |
Over the last five years, we have seen the rise of a new generation of ‘soft AI’ digital assistants like Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Amazon’s Alexa, all designed with feminized personas. In this paper, we connect these AI assistants to the long history of the secretary, beginning with secretary as a desk and then as a profession, emblematized by the executive assistant. How have the gendered practices of organization, anticipation and surveillance been reinvoked in AI agents? How do AI secretaries present new relationships to work, computation and the increasing entanglements of bodies and data
Amazon rainforest · Desk · Human–computer interaction · Management · Persona · Political science · Programming language · Sociology · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence Applications · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |