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<div><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Call for Papers: Issue 29 <br>
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>>> EXTENDED DEADLINE: 14 MARCH 2016 <<<<br>
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<b>Special Issue: Social Robots: Human-machine Configurations<br>
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Human-machine relationships are being transformed by robots increasingly performing social roles such as teachers, carers and companions. This arrival of social robots is challenging understandings of human-machine relationships and generating diverse aesthetic,
ethical and political debates. Matters of interest include asymmetries in human-robot relationships, the co-constitution of humans and robots, the place of robot labour, the significance of machine embodiment, and accounts of human-robot communication, among
other topics. Commonly, the ways in which social and cultural norms shape social robotics do not receive enough critical scrutiny.<br>
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This special issue of <i>Transformations</i> examines the ways in which human-machine relationships are configured in social robotics. It seeks contributions that recognise that contemporary robotics produces and circulates cultural values, and consider how
social robots continue and diverge from other expressive and communicative practices. In so doing it tests the scope and limits of the category of social robotics.<br>
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We invite submissions in the areas of philosophy, critical, cultural and media studies, science and technology studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include:<br>
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</span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">emotional relationships between humans and robots<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">ideas of the human circulated by robotics<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">connections between fictional and non-fictional robots<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">robotic cultures and cultures of robotics <br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">social robots as mediation<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">agency in human-machine assemblages<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">the machine as Other<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">robotic artworks as social robots<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">the embedding of normativity in social robots<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">affective robotic labour<br>
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</span></font><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">the representation of robots and robotics in cultural texts and
artworks<br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Abstracts (500 words): Revised deadline 14 March with a view to submit by 20 June 2016.<br>
Abstracts to be forwarded to: <a href="applewebdata://7A836807-A09D-4718-8CB6-748480818869/editor@transformationsjournal.org">editor@transformationsjournal.org</a> <<a href="mailto:editor@transformationsjournal.org">mailto:editor@transformationsjournal.org</a>> <br>
For submission guidelines go to: <a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/</a> <<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/</a>> <br>
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<div>Grayson Cooke</div>
<div>Associate Professor of Media</div>
<div>Course Coordinator Bachelor of Media</div>
<div>Director of Higher Degree Research Training</div>
<div>School of Arts and Social Sciences</div>
<div>Southern Cross University</div>
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