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Optimus Primed: Media Cultivation of Robot Mental Models and Social Judgments
2020
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Media influence people's perceptions of reality broadly and of technology in particular. Robot villains and heroes-from Ultron to Wall-E-have been shown to serve a specific cultivation function, shaping people's perceptions of those embodied social technologies, especially when individuals do not have direct experience with them. To date, however, little is understood about the nature of the conceptions people hold for what robots are, how they work, and how they may function in society, as
doi:10.3389/frobt.2020.00062
pmid:33501230
pmcid:PMC7805817
fatcat:jlejmfwri5g7fjhbaivftjfqvm