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Overview"While the metaverse is often marketed as a future utopia, the vision of the metaverse represents an attempt for private corporations to control the code of the real. In the hands of companies that established and maintain the surveillance capitalism model, the ability to build a persistent, all-compassing environment means all activity in that world can be metricized and commodified, making the metaverse worthy of critical examination. Significant parts of life are already conducted in a digital place that combines various aspects of digital culture. Likewise, digital worlds for socializing already exist, and in a form akin to the VR metaverse, just as VR worlds based on play now coexist with online worlds of user generated content. These discreet private ""microverses"", as we refer to them, are spaces which can model the tensions that would be inherent in the metaverse. From Microverse to Metaverse: Modelling the Future through Today's Virtual Worlds examines the place attachments, world-feeling and dwelling of several ""microverses"" to assess the possibilities of the metaverse as a realistic proposition. Critically analyzing the phenomenological feeling of place, the political economy of emerging tech, the mechanisms of identity and self along with the behavioral constraints involved, the authors map what a metaverse might be like, whether it can happen, and just why some companies seem so determined to make it happen." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leighton Evans (Swansea University, UK) , Jordan Frith (Clemson University, USA) , Michael Saker (City University of London, UK)Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.301kg ISBN: 9781804550229ISBN 10: 1804550221 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 12 October 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Roots of the Metaverse Chapter 3. Social worlds Chapter 4. Gaming worlds Chapter 5. User generated worlds Chapter 6. Worlds of Commerce Chapter 7. Worlds of Desire Chapter 8. Entertainment Worlds Chapter 9. Fitness Worlds Chapter 10. Conclusion – Building the world we want to buildReviewsAuthor InformationLeighton Evans is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Swansea University and Undergraduate Programme Director for Media and Communications. Jordan Frith is Endowed Chair: Pearce Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson University. Michael Saker is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at City, University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |