Voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant have recently been the subject of lively debates in regard to issues such as artificial intelligence, surveillance, gender stereotypes, and privacy. Less attention, however, has been given to the fact that voice assistants are also web interfaces that might impact on how the web is accessed, understood and employed by users. This article aims to advance work in this context by identifying a range of issues that should spark additional reflections and discussions within communication and media studies and related fields. In particular, the article focuses on three key issues that have to do with long-standing discussions about the social and political impact of the internet: the role of web platforms in shaping information access, the relationship between production and consumption online, and the role of affect in informing engagement with web resources. Considering these issues in regard to voice assistants not only helps contextualize these technologies within existing debates in communication and media studies, but also highlights that voice assistants pose novel questions to internet research, challenging assumptions of what the web looks like as speech becomes one of the key ways to access resources and information online.

语音助手（例如Siri，Alexa和Google助手）最近在诸如人工智能，监视，性别刻板印象和隐私等问题上引起了激烈的争论。但是，人们很少关注语音助手也是Web界面的事实，它可能会影响用户访问，理解和使用Web的方式。本文旨在通过确定在通讯，媒体研究及相关领域内引发更多思考和讨论的一系列问题来推进这一工作。特别是，本文重点关注与互联网的社会和政治影响的长期讨论相关的三个关键问题：网络平台在塑造信息访问中的作用，在线生产与消费之间的关系，以及情感在通知参与Web资源方面的作用。在语音助手方面考虑这些问题，不仅有助于在通讯和媒体研究的现有辩论中对这些技术进行情境化，而且还强调了语音助手给互联网研究提出了新的问题，挑战了随着语音成为互联网之一而对网络的假设。在线访问资源和信息的关键方法。