{"id":316,"date":"2021-04-05T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=316"},"modified":"2021-08-20T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:49:42","slug":"libby-oneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2021\/04\/05\/libby-oneil\/","title":{"rendered":"#16: &#8220;Alexa, Who Are You?&#8221; with Libby O&#8217;Neil &#8217;19, MALS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frank interviewed a recent MALS grad, Libby O&#8217;Neil &#8217;19, about her master&#8217;s thesis, &#8220;&#8216;A Voice and Nothing More&#8217;: Technological Embodiment and the Artificial Female Voice.&#8221; Libby is a graduate of Reed&#8217;s only graduate degree program, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reed.edu\/MALS\/index.html\">Master of Arts in Liberal Studies<\/a>, often referred to as the MALS degree. Libby used Amazon&#8217;s Alexa voice assistant as a primary text for part of her thesis, and used Alexa, in part, to examine some ways we use technology in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/MALS\/\">Reed&#8217;s MALS program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed community members can read <a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/i\/9dc51a44-8ac0-41ef-9776-833d1e09943c\">Libby&#8217;s thesis<\/a> online in the Electronic Theses Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1021326895&amp;color=%232e0a06&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/libby-oneil\" title=\"#16: &quot;Alexa, Who Are You?&quot; with Libby O'Neil '19, MALS\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">#16: &#8220;Alexa, Who Are You?&#8221; with Libby O&#8217;Neil &#8217;19, MALS<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank interviewed a recent MALS grad, Libby O&#8217;Neil &#8217;19, about her master&#8217;s thesis, &#8220;&#8216;A Voice and Nothing More&#8217;: Technological Embodiment and the Artificial Female Voice.&#8221; Libby is a graduate of Reed&#8217;s only graduate degree program, the Master of Arts in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2021\/04\/05\/libby-oneil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,70,68],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episode","tag-gender","tag-mals","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}