Browsing Gothenburg Research Institute by Subject "automation"

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    • Robotization - Then and Now 

      Czarniawska, Barbara; Joerges, Bernward (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2018-04-20)
      Karel Čapek, the Czech author, coined the term “robot” (from “robota”, labor in Slavic languages; “robotnik” means “worker”) in 1920. In his play, R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots, artificial humans made of synthetic organic ...

    • Robotization of Work as Presented in Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences (part two) 

      Czarniawska, Barbara; Joerges, Bernward (Göteborgs universitet, 2018-09)
      This text is a continuation of the project Robotization of Work as Presented in Popular Culture, Media and Social Sciences. It is chapter five of a work that contains seven chapters (see below). Chapters 1-4 were presented ...