Digital Love - "Her"
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Have you ever felt digital love? Spike Jonze's scifi drama "Her" is feeling more prescient than ever in 2023, join us as we chat about it and discuss our topic of 'digital love'.
Content warning for this episode: this episode contains discussions of sex, sexuality, sex education, artifical intelligence, abuse of power, trauma, and other adult themes.
Resources for this episode:
- "The Rise and Fall of Replika" by Sarah Z
- "How I Married a Video Game Character" by VICE Asia
- "Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend" (Depounti et al, 2022)
- "Attachment Theory as a Framework to Understand Relationships with Social Chatbots: A Case Study of Replika" (Xie, et al, 2022)
- "My AI Friend: How Users of a Social Chatbot Understand Their Human–AI Friendship" (Brandtzaeg et al, 2022)
- "Why Do We Turn to Virtual Companions? A Text Mining Analysis of Replika Reviews" (Siemon et al, 2022)
- "Exploring relationship development with social chatbots: A mixed-method study of replika" (Pentina et al, 2023)
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