Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment
The article takes its starting point with heuristics, according to which agency is not to be seen as something that certain ontological entities stably do or do not possess. Rather, it is assumed that agency, especially in voice-based exchange with smart speaker technology, is a dynamic accomplishme...
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| description | The article takes its starting point with heuristics, according to which agency is not to be seen as something that certain ontological entities stably do or do not possess. Rather, it is assumed that agency, especially in voice-based exchange with smart speaker technology, is a dynamic accomplishment, basically bound to the local (linguistic) practices carried out by or rather involving contributions by participants with unequal resources for participating. Following Hirschauer (2016), we distinguish between levels of activity both on an active-passive spectrum as well as on a proactive-inhibitive spectrum and reconstruct empirically against that background how in particular the smart speaker can appear in different situations and contexts. The article concludes with a discussion of the notion of agency relating the observed practices on the one hand and against the background of a broader context of agency as media theory has it on the other, including domestication theory as well as recent smart home technologies and platform logics.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1c353592c8740149baae14573ad5eb92023-07-09T11:34:06ZengUniversity of CopenhagenSocial Interaction2446-36202023-06-016110.7146/si.v6i1.137378Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical AccomplishmentStephan Habscheid0Tim Hector1Christine Hrncal2University of SiegenUniversity of SiegenUniversity of SiegenThe article takes its starting point with heuristics, according to which agency is not to be seen as something that certain ontological entities stably do or do not possess. Rather, it is assumed that agency, especially in voice-based exchange with smart speaker technology, is a dynamic accomplishment, basically bound to the local (linguistic) practices carried out by or rather involving contributions by participants with unequal resources for participating. Following Hirschauer (2016), we distinguish between levels of activity both on an active-passive spectrum as well as on a proactive-inhibitive spectrum and reconstruct empirically against that background how in particular the smart speaker can appear in different situations and contexts. The article concludes with a discussion of the notion of agency relating the observed practices on the one hand and against the background of a broader context of agency as media theory has it on the other, including domestication theory as well as recent smart home technologies and platform logics. https://tidsskrift.dk/socialinteraction/article/view/137378praxeologyssmart speakervoice user interfaceagencydomestication theory |
| spellingShingle | Stephan Habscheid Tim Hector Christine Hrncal Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment Social Interaction praxeology ssmart speaker voice user interface agency domestication theory |
| title | Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment |
| title_full | Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment |
| title_fullStr | Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment |
| title_short | Human and Non-Human Agency as Practical Accomplishment |
| title_sort | human and non human agency as practical accomplishment |
| topic | praxeology ssmart speaker voice user interface agency domestication theory |
| url | https://tidsskrift.dk/socialinteraction/article/view/137378 |
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