View all news

Blog: Virtual reality requires body and consciousness

24 April 2024

Visitor to the Centre, Priscila Gonsales, writes on her experiences of VR environments that go beyond the visual and discusses how these can be used to further research and increase accessibility.

One of the challenges for those who research education based on the perspective of post-humanism is to disseminate the idea that digital technology, increasingly embedded in social life, cannot be deemed a mere tool-object to be appropriated by the human being-subject.

Katherine Hayles’ post-humanist perspective focuses on the interactions between human beings and technologies (between body and information). These make it possible to understand tangled networks in constant construction and reconstruction in the sociodigital context.

By participating in the virtual reality (VR) experience SOMA, with the Centre for Sociodigital Futures learning domain team, I was able to experience how the human consciousness cannot be isolated from its social and technological environment....

Further information

Read this blog article in full: Virtual reality requires body and consciousness

See all related articles: CenSoF blog

Edit this page