Metaverse Book and Series Launch

The Metaverse Series is a forthcoming series of books from Taylor & Francis which will explore the role, opportunities and challenges of the Metaverse in the present and near future, from business and entertainment to our personal lives and to humanity’s future. The Metaverse Series will take a critical view of the potential and opportunities, dangers and challenges of the Metaverse. The series intends to focus more on the consensual social virtual space that the Metaverse creates rather than any specific technology used to build it. Whilst many of its features are already finding their way into everyday activities, these early manifestations give little sense of the long term impact that the Metaverse could have on the future of humanity. Yet, even the form and scope of the ‘metaverse’ are subject to debate, and this series will aim to ensure that such discussion is well informed.

Book to attend the launch, which will be an ‘in conversation’ event with Professor Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University; Professor Sarah Hayes, University of Bath Spa; Dave White, University of the Arts and the authors David Burden and Maggi Savin-Baden.

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Professor Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University whose research interests include Ethical Artificial Intelligence, autonomous moral machines, biologically inspired machine learning, embodied conversational agents and social robotics as well as other aspects of ethical AI.

Professor Sarah Hayes, University of Bath Spa has co-edited the Springer books Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (2022) and Human Data Interaction, Disadvantage and Skills in the Community (2023). She recently led two projects funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council about Data and disadvantage and Extending Human Data Interaction.

Dave White, University of the Arts is a regular speaker on topics such as digital identity, digital literacies and online credibility. He has been heard on Radio 4, the World Service and ABC Australia. David is at home blogging, tweeting or creating videos, developing thinking and discourse in online spaces. For him the digital is much more than a set of tools or a chaotic library, it’s a place where we can learn and live.

David Burden is an independent consultant in conversational AI, virtual humans, virtual reality, virtual worlds, the metaverse and virtual war (wargames). He is doing a PhD in wargaming urban conflict and series co-editor for The Metaverse Series.

Maggi Savin-Baden is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, is the co-editor of the Metaverse series with David, with whom she has worked for over 20 years. She is author, co-author and editor of 27 books.

Venue: Blackfriars - St Giles Oxford, OX1 3LY United Kingdom Array ( [lat] => 51.756248 [lng] => -1.259881 )

Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk