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Volume 30, Issue 60
  • ISSN: 0845-4450
  • E-ISSN: 2048-6928

Abstract

Abstract

As a response to contemporary discourse that declaims the transformative potential of virtual reality (VR), I examine corporate discourse that literally and figuratively objectifies bodies, framing technological mediations as natural and necessary. I argue that these corporate ambitions for bodies in VR have physical, raced, gendered, and political implications, reproducing unequal relations while normalizing an understanding of bodies and worlds as commodifiable data.

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2020-03-01
2024-11-04
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  • Article Type: Article
Keyword(s): bodies; corporations; data; Facebook; Google; technology; Virtual Reality
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