Technology is never neutral: Why Black people will struggle to find a place in the Metaverse
By Breigha Adeyemo, Doctoral Candidate in Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how images are interpreted suffer from racial and gender biases. People who have multiple marginalized identities, such as being Black and disabled, are even more at risk than those with a single marginalized identity. This is why when Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for the metaverse – a network of virtual environments in which many people can...
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