Lisa Messeri

ORCID: 0000-0002-0964-123X
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Research Areas
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems

Yale University
2024

Abstract This article considers how ideas about technology take on distinct and divergent meanings in different centers of power. Through a study the virtual reality (VR) community Los Angeles, I identify concepts that seem to immutably travel between LA San Francisco's Silicon Valley but through ethnographic examination reveal flexible, local meanings. VR's charismatic identification as an empathy machine, connections storytelling innovation, appeals workforce diversity all widely networks...

10.1111/aman.28029 article EN American Anthropologist 2024-11-07
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