An ethnography of conversational agents

No 220-221, 2020/2 - 324 pages

Presentation

Pages 9 to 20

Doing ethnography of interactions with conversational agents

By Julia Velkovska, Marc Relieu

Special report: An ethnography of conversational agents

Pages 21 to 45

The ties that bind

By Justine Cassell

Pages 47 to 79

Relationships to “conversational” machines

By Julia Velkovska, Moustafa Zouinar, in collaboration with Clair-Antoine Veyrier, translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht

Pages 81 to 111

A configurational approach to conversational lures

By Marc Relieu, Merve Sahin, Aurélien Francillon

Pages 113 to 150

Answering a robot’s questions: Participation dynamics of adult-child-groups in encounters with a museum guide robot

By Karola Pitsch

Pages 151 to 193

“I’ve got to go”. Analyses of closing sequences in human-robot conversations

By Christian Licoppe, Nicolas Rollet

Pages 195 to 222

Building a machine’s “understanding”

By Charlotte Esteban

Pages 223 to 251

Designing anthropomorphic machines

By Joffrey Becker

Varia

Pages 253 to 291

Robots, livestock farming, and technocapitalism

By Philippe Le Guern

Book reviews

Pages 293 to 299

Henri BOULLIER, Toxiques légaux : comment les firmes chimiques ont mis la main sur le contrôle de leurs produits, Paris, La Découverte, 2019, 200 p.

By Mathieu Baudrin

Pages 300 to 304

Manuel CERVERA-MARZAL, Post-vérité : pourquoi il faut s’en réjouir, Lormont, Le Bord de l’Eau, coll. « La bibliothèque du MAUSS », 2019, 122 p.

By Ana Cristina Suzina

Pages 305 to 307

Michel GROSSETTI, Jean-François BARTHE et Nathalie CHAUVAC, Les start-up, des entreprises comme les autres ? Une enquête sociologique en France, Paris, Sorbonne Université Presses, coll. « L’intelligence du social. Sociologie économique », 2018, 15

By Arnaud Saint-Martin