Annette Masterson

Media and Technology Researcher. Focused on bots and intimacy with political economy/law.
Research Fellow UMich, #UMMIDAS Affilitate. Temple U Ph.D. (she/her)

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

Action shot at #IEEE #roman2025 presentation with @lionelrobertjr ! It has been great to talk with HRI researchers about sex robots! Check out our paper: https://t.co/Mqs1g6vdg2

[Lionel Peter Robert Jr. @lionelrobertjr]

Great talk! ⁦@ieeeroman⁩

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

Check out this publication from Andrew Wirzburger on the tension of political consumerism and depoliticized speech on video game platform, Steam. I'm so glad to see this out in the world!
https://t.co/vyKkKIq1bI

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

I only know how to explain things with goofy faces. But still had a great poster session at the @michigan_AI Symposium. https://t.co/us0qNBJX8F

[MichiganAI @michigan_AI]

If you missed Michigan AI 2024 Symposium yesterday, take a look at the interview snippets from Ann Arbor Tonight and stay tuned for full videos coming soon:

🎥✨https://t.co/6hRGfeoMYb

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

New publication in @FemMediaStudies with @jmclaren117! Paper focused on the attempted sex robot brothel in Houston, Texas. Sex panic discourse stopped plans to open robot brothels across the U.S. https://t.co/DGObAButbN

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

Excited this paper is out about free press during the Cuban Revolution years! @ekcoyle and @elisafondren - "The Throttling of the Free Press in Cuba”: Exploring Transnational Journalism and Sigma Delta Chi’s Advocacy for Press Freedom in Cuba, 1959–1962 https://t.co/5bf0vRZF7t

[jackson mclaren @jmclaren117]

I’m blasting this out one more time-I’m particularly looking to speak with folks who have played Tell Me Why and The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories 🙂 thanks!

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

My friend @jmclaren117 is looking for gamers to participate in a survey/interview for his PhD dissertation. Please consider sharing your gaming experiences! Share with anyone you know!

[Human-Machine Communication @HMCjournal]

Annette Masterson explores "Designing a Loving Robot: A Social Construction Analysis of a Sex Robot Creator’s Vision" in the latest in #hmc #robot @bepress_DC

https://t.co/K4wX0NQDUZ

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

Excited to have this article out with @nicmessina! Also, loving the cover art from @JOCAM_online

[J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social @JOCAM_online]

How is romantic love portrayed on screen? @masterson_a & @nicmessina performed a content analysis on 19 Netflix original series. They coded these series for loving language, loving behavior, sexual language, sexual behavior, and sexual health.

[J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social @JOCAM_online]

How is romantic love portrayed on screen? @masterson_a & @nicmessina performed a content analysis on 19 Netflix original series. They coded these series for loving language, loving behavior, sexual language, sexual behavior, and sexual health.

[Marco Dehnert @MarcoDehnert]

Excited to see more work on #sexrobots coming out in @HMCjournal! Read more on a sex robot designer's vision in a great piece by Annette Masterson 🤖 #HMC #socialrobotics
https://t.co/bn1aRcBawQ

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

Excited for this to be available! Designing a Loving Robot: A Social Construction Analysis of a Sex Robot Creator’s Vision https://t.co/KQdCCO6I9p

[Where's My Jetpack? @myjetpackca]

Sexbots as a PhD thesis. Wait, what? Annette Masterson of @TempleUniv and the @DigLife3 explains what leads someone to do years of research on the technology. Watch, listen, subscribe (totally SFW): https://t.co/EGWaSQNHxT

[Digital Life Institute @DigLife3]

Thanks Annette Masterson @masterson_a for sharing your PhD research for this episode @TempleUniv ! @DecimalUOIT @OT_CDMS @OT_FSSH

[Isabel Pedersen @isabel_pedersen]

Thank you @andrewiliadis⁩ for sharing research on your forthcoming book Semantic Media ⁦@politybooks⁩ & thanks ⁦@masterson_a⁩ for sharing research on intimate robots at Emergent Tech: Human and Non-Human Relationships today! ⁦@DigLife3⁩

[Decimal Lab @DecimalUOIT]

Decimal Lab is pleased to release the collection 'Expanding Intimacy: An Institutional Exploration of Sex Robots', curated by @TempleUniv PhD student Annette Masterson, and advised by Dr. @andrewiliadis @TUKleincollege

https://t.co/p88B6bWMxM

[Annenberg Inclusion Initiative @Inclusionists]

We're calling this the @brielarson test: what happens when critics review films with white male or underrepresented female leads? Turns out identity matters for how critics evaluate films. Read the report: https://t.co/O9hf3MFf7h

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

New @AARP Research Finds Boomer Audience Not Aware of Many Key Theater Upgrades and Amenities | BoxOffice Pro https://t.co/s4gr8D3yqh

[Annette Masterson @masterson_a]

Enthusiastic #consent should be the expectation and the norm! #TimesUp https://t.co/TtGwTN8Rbk