Tool or Therapist: On the social agency of therapeutical chatbots from social anthropological perspective – Bc. Tereza Stejskalová
Bc. Tereza Stejskalová
Master's thesis
Tool or Therapist: On the social agency of therapeutical chatbots from social anthropological perspective
Tool or Therapist: On the social agency of therapeutical chatbots from social anthropological perspective
Abstract:
Tato práce zkoumá, jak je ne-lidská povaha terapeutického chatbota Woebota zprostředkována a začleněna do narativů biomedicínské péče o duševní zdraví. Tato studie využívá metodologii případové studie ke zkoumání sociální agency Woebota optikou sociální antropologie. Metody sběru dat zahrnují polostrukturované rozhovory, autoexperiment a analýzu komunikace vývojářů skrze oficiální webové stránky. Obsahová …moreAbstract:
This thesis examines how the non-human nature of Woebot, a therapeutic chatbot, is mediated and incorporated into mental-health care narratives within a biomedical cultural healing system. This study employs a case study methodology to investigate the social agency of Woebot through a lense of social anthropology. The methods of collecting data include semi-structured interviews, auto-experiment, and …more
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 4. 5. 2023
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/phhqk/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 31. 5. 2023
- Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
- Reader: Mgr. Ing. Tomáš Doseděl, Ph.D.
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STEJSKALOVÁ, Tereza. \textit{Tool or Therapist: On the social agency of therapeutical chatbots from social anthropological perspective}. Online. Master's thesis. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies. 2023. Available from: https://theses.cz/id/a9q2vp/.
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