The Future of Digital Communication: The Metaverse. Raquel V. Benítez Rojas (ed)
Jie Guo · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities · 2024
With the rise of virtual reality, augmented reality, and other cutting-edge technologies, the concept of the metaverse has gained significant attention as a potential future of communication. Recognizing the necessity to explore the implications of this continually evolving landscape, Raquel V. Benitez Rojas delves into the concept of the metaverse—the unique entity—and its potential to revolutionize the way users within a digital universe engage in immersive experiences and interact with each other, for better or for worse, in the book “The Future of Digital Communication: The Metaverse”. With a keen focus on the transformative power of technology, the book, by bringing together research findings of a team of researchers in fields such as communication studies, virtual reality, and other related disciplines, offers a captivating analysis of the opportunities and challenges of the metaverse that lie ahead through a diverse range of interdisciplinary methodologies. This book presents eleven in-depth chapters into the expansive realm of digital communication known as the metaverse, which far surpasses its “association with lost worlds in a universe almost impossible to imagine” (p. 8). Designed as a comprehensive exploration, the collection of articles covers various aspects related to the metaverse, including but not limited to its origins, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships within it, its educational and linguistic implications, and even the physical aspects of personal representations through avatars.