#16: "Alexa, Who Are You?" with Libby O'Neil '19, MALS
Frank interviewed a recent MALS grad, Libby O'Neil '19, about her master's thesis, "'A Voice and Nothing More': Technological Embodiment and the Artificial Female Voice." Libby is a graduate of Reed's only graduate degree program, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, often referred to as the MALS degree. Libby used Amazon's Alexa voice assistant as a primary text for part of her thesis, and used Alexa, in part, to examine some ways we use technology in our daily lives. Reed's MALS program: https://www.reed.edu/MALS/ Reed community members can read Libby's thesis online in the Electronic…
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