In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles

by Lisa Messeri

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478025972
• ISBN13: 9781478025979
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"