A researcher who studies the intersections of race, technology and democracy believes that it is important to carefully consider the values that are being encoded into the next-generation internet, called the metaverse, to ensure that better regulatory frameworks are in place for internet companies and for more just design processes so that technology doesn’t continue to correlate with racism.
As part of The Drum’s Metaverse Deep Dive, Amplify’s Rosie Copland-Mann argues that diversity and inclusion is too important to leave to the platforms building the metaverse to implement.
A researcher who studies the intersections of race, technology and democracy believes that it is important to carefully consider the values that are being encoded into the next-generation internet, called the metaverse, to ensure that better regulatory frameworks are in place for internet companies and for more just design processes so that technology doesn’t continue to correlate with racism.
Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies, according to researcher Breigha Adeyemo who shares ways to make them more inclusive.