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Robot Rhetoric: Fostering Public Understanding of The DARPA Robotics Challenge
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open in viewerI analyzed how science and technology are presented to the public. Topics I studied include rhetorical perspectives, contextual connections, and techniques for writing engaging nonfictional prose. Using this theoretical framework as a critical lens, I examined coverage of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Many articles failed to explain the historic significance, technological complexity, and military applications of the nominally-humanitarian technology of the Challenge. I conclude by writing an article about the Challenge that attempts to improve public understanding of robotics.
- This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
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- E-project-050114-132119
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- 2014
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- 2014-05-01
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