Please join us for the second session of the Reading Group on The Ethics of Immersion: Beyond ‘Tech for Good’ organised by the Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception at King’s College London and led by Professor Joanna Zylinska.

SESSION 2: Virtuous Virtual Reality

Nakamura, Lisa (2020) ‘Feeling good about feeling bad: virtuous virtual reality and the automation of racial empathy’. Journal of Visual Culture, 19(1), 47-64.

Full text is openly available via the above link.

This article adopts a cultural studies approach. It offers a critical perspective on industry claims around empathy and moral goodness to be (supposedly) generated in immersive environments. It raises some important questions for what we might term ‘ethical tourism’ to different bodies, minds and experiences enabled by VR.

This event is open to all and free to attend. An MS Teams link for the meeting will be sent to all registered participants. Booking is required via this link.