TY - JOUR AU - Johnson, Amy PY - 2014/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - VOICING TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS ON TWITTER: FROM @big_ben_clock to @SelfAwareROOMBA JF - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research JA - SPIR VL - 4 IS - 0 SE - Papers DO - UR - https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/9100 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column">On Twitter, existence is envoiced rather than embodied. Twitter is, moreover, broadly egalitarian in its practices of use—any possessor of a valid email address can register for an account. Voices can be directly articulated by a human, a team of humans, a bot, a combination of bot and human. What does it mean that these different voices, bot and human, individual and organizational, performed and animated, interact together as (basically) equals? I examine a collection of Twitter accounts that voice technological objects ranging from clocks to drones to washing machines to ask: Who are we on Twitter?</div></div></div> ER -