{"id":108,"date":"2022-04-11T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:28:44","slug":"week-11-virtual-empathy-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/04\/11\/week-11-virtual-empathy-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11. Virtual empathy and community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Skillshares<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imani, Olivia, Yacob, Nickie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Lisa Nakamura, <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SUkGyqUsGGvFGnYNjt6IEYnyJPCz6Fet\/view?usp=share_link\">&#8220;Feeling good about feeling bad: virtuous virtual reality and the automation of racial empathy&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Journal of Visual Culture<\/em>, 19(1), 47\u201364<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Rebecca Solnit, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1mqqE_Xr_HKPlTIELXyZkFN2HSq6g7WIw\/view?usp=share_link\">Paradise Built in Hell<\/a><\/em>, 2009. Let&#8217;s read the Prelude, &#8220;Falling Together&#8221; (pages 1-10), as well as the Epilogue, &#8220;The Doorway in Ruins&#8221; (pages 305-313). And if you have time I suggest you try reading one chapter in the middle; I recommend &#8220;What Difference Would it Make?&#8221; (pages 231-246).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to take some time in class this week to watch some of the below videos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1VjOIUcyHtLMdROg3SITpeaJ7iA_WUZ7K\/view?usp=share_link\">Mark Zuckerberg and Rachel Franklin &#8220;visiting&#8221; flooded Puerto Rico in virtual reality (VR)<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a short piece about this stunt: Olivia Solon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/09\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-puerto-rico-virtual-reality\">&#8220;Mark Zuckerberg &#8216;tours&#8217; flooded Puerto Rico in bizarre virtual reality promo&#8221;<\/a>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, Oct 9, 2017. Teaser: &#8220;The Facebook CEO\u2019s cartoon avatar visited the hurricane-damaged island in a tone-deaf live stream that was part disaster tourism, part product promotion.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Facebook CEO\u2019s cartoon avatar visited the hurricane-damaged island in a tone-deaf live stream that was part disaster tourism, part product promotion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lots of Weather Channel videos using techniques probably best described as augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flooding with <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1WjnXHcCYX8NaR4y5hA5gvHbeBxJjUX4p\/view?usp=share_link\">Erika Navarro<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flooding with <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19411NYOiuFN-IAG1qsLMkQmObl2OvvuZ\/view?usp=share_link\">Mark Elliot<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dpBwHXF3MvEFBI9hxFdkbBcFpDJz7W4r\/view?usp=share_link\">Flash flood<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1h0JF-CosREyYL-gxyePLwLH85s80uYsQ\/view?usp=sharing\">Ice storm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11 &#038; 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}