Voice Assistants in Private Homes : Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse

Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified lingu...

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Main Authors: Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, David Waldecker
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