In the Land of the Unreal

In the Land of the Unreal

AngličtinaPevná väzba
Messeri Lisa
Duke University Press
EAN: 9781478025979
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In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse social realities. She outlines how, in the aftermath of #MeToo, the backlash against Silicon Valley, and the turmoil of the Trump administration, it was imagined that VR—if led by women and other marginalized voices—could bring about a better world. Messeri delves into the fantasies that allowed this vision to flourish, exposing the paradox of attempting to use a singular VR experience to mend a fractured reality full of multiple, conflicting social truths. She theorizes this dynamic as unreal, noting how dreams of empathy collide with reality’s irreducibility to a “common” good. With In the Land of the Unreal, Messeri navigates the intersection of place, technology, and social change to show that technology alone cannot upend systemic forces attached to gender and race.
EAN 9781478025979
ISBN 1478025972
Typ produktu Pevná väzba
Vydavateľ Duke University Press
Dátum vydania 8. marca 2024
Stránky 312
Jazyk English
Rozmery 229 x 152
Krajina United States
Autori Messeri Lisa
Ilustrácie 22 illustrations