Immersive Wearables: Their Political and Social Effects and What Both Mean for Western Liberal Democracy

J. Ryan Briggs
Additional contact information
J. Ryan Briggs: California State University, Los Angeles, USA

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, 54-71

Abstract: This article examines how some of the social and political implications to immersive wearables, particularly in their capacity as surveillance technology, threaten to transform if not undermine the fundamental values behind the western liberal democracy. Precisely because immersive wearables will, in many cases, prove invaluable easy will it probably be for their associated social and political risks to be lost among the excitement, at least early on. Before, that is, such risks become hard realities and woven into the fabric of civilization. For this reason, this article looks to serve as a modest premortem on the social and political implications to immersive wearables, whereby encouraging the practice of anticipating and proactively interrogating what it means to essentially transform the bodily act of apprehending both the physical world and the digital one––heretofore mostly disjointed experiences, united only by the faculties used––into one primarily mediated by networked computer interfaces based on immersion.

Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve ... 018/IJSKD.2018070104 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:10:y:2018:i:3:p:54-71

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) is currently edited by Lincoln Christopher Wood

More articles in International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) from IGI Global
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Journal Editor ().