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Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures book cover

1st Edition

Metaverse Datafication Technologies, Definitions, and Futures

Edited By Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, Stefano Canali Copyright 2026
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the most pressing questions and concerns that are emerging in tandem with the development of metaverse platforms and technologies. It focuses on the central question of how the gallop towards ‘bigger’ and ‘richer’ data will extend and intensify current drives towards datafication and commodification. The volume draws on different disciplines in the social sciences and... Read more

Introduction: Metaverse datafication: technologies, definitions, and futures

Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali

 

1. Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon

Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali

 

2. The metaverse-industrial complex

Harrison Smith

 

3. The Better Bandit: Decentralised Infrastructure, Crypto-States, and the rematerialisation of virtual worlds

Kelsie Nabben and Ellie Rennie

 

4. Meta’s artistic turn: AR face filters, platform art, and the actually existing metaverse

Nicola Bozzi

 

5. Materializing corporate futures: how the EU navigated the Metaverse hype

Michele Martini

 

6. Value and virtue in the extended reality (XR) industry

Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter and Kate Euphemia Clark

 

7. Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Historical roots, current visions, and future dynamics of real-world integration in the Chinese governmental narrative on the Metaverse

Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina

 

8. I VR therefore I am: toxic binary thinking in visions of the metaverse

Ignas Kalpokas and Julija Kalpokienė

 

9. Extensive culture: expressions of endlessness in the metaverse and the limits of data accumulation

David Beer

 

Index

Biography

Chris Hesselbein is an Assistant professor of Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Management Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is an ethnographer who studies how knowledge and technology are co-constructed with conceptions of social order.

Paolo Bory is an Assistant professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication in the Department of Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He studies from a social and historical perspectives the imaginaries and narratives about networks and digital technologies such as AI and supercomputing.

Stefano Canali is an Assistant professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research focuses on the epistemic role of emerging technologies in science and their connections with evidence-based policy, scientific change, and the science-society interface.

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