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The 7th paragraph reads “This is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experience with the people in your life”, the post has 193k ‘Likes’ 590 ‘comments’ and 29k ‘shares’. A still from Tron (1982) a computer program is represented as a colourful futuristic digital city scape, with users embodied in blue, pink and purple neon unitards. A still from the 1966 BBC adaptation of EM Foresters prescient ‘The Machine Stops’ (1928) short story, in the black and white image two people communicate via a sci-fi representation of a video call technology. In this world all inhabitants live in isolation and only connect with each other through ‘the machine’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e85b9406898371be5d98795/1610645444219-PIBWEDSJGK2O5I2TWUNY/Screenshot+2021-01-14+at+17.27.31.png WRITING - Space, Politics, Cyberspace & Bodies: Social VR and the ‘New Normal’ Img desc: A collaged image of open desktop windows including; A grid of images in which a 90’s computer graphics style virtual forearm and tennis ball, are overlaid onto a real forearm, a lab-coated technician touches the real arm with a tennis ball like object. The image illustrates ‘the illusion of body ownership’ in VR, from Mel Slater et al and is included in reading list. A press image from Facebook Spaces, facebooks early VR social platform, it’s a POV shot from inside the experience, in what looks like a virtual surf shack, two very similar looking avatars of white men with beards and glasses lean towards the viewer as if to introduce themselves, their hovering name tags identify them as Michael and Christophe. A screenshot of an image from the Michelle Cortese, Andrea Zeller medium article about safer online spaces included in the reading list, the image itself is a collage of various journal articles with titles such as ‘Online Harm is Real’, ‘Sexual Harassment in Virtual Reality is a Big Issue’ and ‘Virtual Reality is Full of Assholes Who Sexually Harass Me, Hence Why I Keep Going Back’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e85b9406898371be5d98795/1610644927980-8TYS91D2A00FVZIWMKYU/Screenshot+2020-11-06+at+18.10.29.png WRITING - Space, Politics, Cyberspace & Bodies: Social VR and the ‘New Normal’ Img desc: A collaged image of open desktop windows including; A screenshot of a desktop virtual social platform ‘SecondLife’, multiple avatars with hovering name boxes appear to be dancing on water in a surreal seascape. A screenshot of a google image search for the term ‘homuncular flexibility’, images are of PDF texts, a VR club space and a stick and ball model of the human body. A screenshot of an article with the title ‘Across Cultures, Darker People Suffer Most. Why?’ the article has an image of Andrea 3000 on stage, he is black, he holds a microphone he is wearing a white wig and white rimmed sunglasses and a black boiler suit with the same phrase written across it in white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e85b9406898371be5d98795/1610567799282-97GAP5WEDJXT6ALGXTMK/Screenshot+2021-01-11+at+15.28.56.png WRITING - Space, Politics, Cyberspace & Bodies: Social VR and the ‘New Normal’ Img desc: A collaged image of open desktop windows including; a still from Lars Von Trier’s Dogville (2003) of black stage with sparse furniture shot from above, white writing and lines indicate streets, buildings and rooms representing the fictional town of the title. A shutterstock image of a typical ‘Womens, Mens & Disabled’ toilet sign. A still from Crazy Stupid Love (2011) in which a nude Ryan Gosling stands in a gym locker room with a towel around his neck, gesturing to his genitals which are obstructed from view by another persons head. Subtitles read “Oh, I’m sorry, is this bothering you?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e85b9406898371be5d98795/1610568474301-7UFSKPHE1D7TDUI3CFFA/Screenshot+2021-01-13+at+19.55.23.png WRITING - Space, Politics, Cyberspace & Bodies: Social VR and the ‘New Normal’ Img desc: A collaged image of open desktop windows including; A getty images photo of a building entrance with brick wall and concrete floor in which metal cone spikes have been set. Text reads “Short metal spikes installed outside the entrance of a building in London on June 10, 2014. 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