this article <a href="http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/03/10/virtual-mediated-and-augmented-reality/">http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/03/10/virtual-mediated-and-augmented-reality/</a><br><br>makes some important discussion around mediated/augmented/virtual reality<br>
<br>Alessandro, could you you have a look at it, eventually quote/discuss it?<br><br>Michel<br><br>The failure to distinguish augmented and mediated reality betrays an
widely held assumption that causality between the online and offline
worlds is uni-directional; that is, it only considers how the material
is altered by the digital. However, augmented reality is bigger than
just holding a smartphone screen in front of your face to see
information superimposed on the landscape in front of you. Using this
kind of program as the paradigmatic example of augmented reality
obscures the recursivity between the online and offline world. Almost
every aspect of online networks and their content are determined by the
same social structures (e.g., race, class, gender, etc.) that have long
determined offline networks and their content. <em>Augmented reality
does not just alter our social and material reality, it also reproduces
and reifies it.</em> <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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