Materializações digitais da cultura : os transatores vocais e a comunicação contemporânea

Abstract

The instant a digital artifact receives aural, vocal, intelligence and learning properties, the relationship of the human being who interacts with it is changed, in a moment of coevolution between humans and technology. Taking into account this process and the advancement of information and communication technologies, this study has the central objective of proposing a theoretical-methodological map of the digital materializations of culture that understands the dynamics that configure contemporary communication processes, observed through interactions between people, personal digital assistants and intelligent communication artifacts, called vocal transactors. To this end, the materialities of communication in digital culture were adopted as the central theoretical framework and, as an empirical object, the smart speaker Google Home. As methodological procedures, it is based on a proposal inspired by ethnography to observe the empirical field, adopting exploratory research and semistructured interviews as data collection techniques. We found, therefore, that the contemporary communicative act is a coded and processed act, which occurs "with" and "through" vocal transactors, digital artifacts whose presence impacts the way we relate to other objects, electronics, artifacts and the home as a whole. It is a communicative act done in a machine-radius that expands the world of human aurality to the machine code.