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The character of Data and his humanity in Star Trek: The Next Generation |
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| Author: | Pulliainen, Mikael1 |
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1University of Oulu, Faculty of Humanities, English Philology |
| Format: | ebook |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.3 MB) |
| Pages: | 29 |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201811103021 |
| Language: | English |
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Oulu :
M. Pulliainen,
2018
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| Publish Date: | 2018-11-13 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Description: |
This study will aim to analyze the character Data, an android, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. More specifically, this study will focus on Data’s humanity and sentience in the episode “The Measure of a Man”. Is Data sentient? Is he just a machine? Does he resemble humans based on his actions and interaction with the other characters? The methodology applied in this study is functional semiotic approach. I discovered that while Data is a machine and an artificial lifeform, he has many human-like characteristics and he learns them by observing humans and their actions, as well as manners and traditions.
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| Copyright information: |
© Mikael Pulliainen, 2018. This publication is copyrighted. You may download, display and print it for your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited. |