Queering Virtual Reality
Queering Virtual Reality
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酷炫虚拟现实
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10.1007/978-3-030-29489-2_17
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2019
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Paré, D.
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在这一章中，我们调查了STEM中的创新，如虚拟现实(VR)和3D雕塑，如何支持关于性别和性行为的批判性文学的发展。我们的工作源于这样一种担忧，即生物学中假定的男性/女性二元类别通常是公共教育中同性恋、变性人和双性人恐慌的中心。与社会学家和性别和性行为的批评性学者相呼应，我们假设变性人和同性恋者的身份应该被定位为玩耍、积极探索的领域。此外，我们调查了如何利用新形式的计算表征基础设施来支持关于性别和性行为的富有成效和趣味的调查体验。我们提供了一次设计小组会议的回顾分析，一小群30岁出头的朋友有性别不一致和同性恋身份和生活史。这组人在基于VR的环境中互动，在那里他们参与了两种不同形式的建构主义学习体验：创建对个人有意义的物体的3D雕塑，以及在VR社交媒体上重新创建他们的VR化身。我们的分析说明了如何使用社会建构主义的观点来有效地分析这种经历，这些建构主义观点将知晓作为边界游戏和图形世界，以及游戏和友谊在支持与复杂的叙事和性别和性的边缘化体验的深入和批判性接触中所起的作用。
In this chapter, we investigate how innovations in STEM, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D Sculpting, can support the development of critical literacies about gender and sexuality. Our work arises from the concern that the assumed “naturalness” of male/female binary categories in biology is often at the center of the queer, trans, and intersex panics in public education. Echoing sociologists and critical scholars of gender and sexuality, we posit that transgender and queer identities should be positioned as realms of playful, active inquiry. Further, we investigate how new forms of computational representational infrastructures can be leveraged to support productive and playful experiences of inquiry about gender and sexuality. We present a retrospective analysis of a design group meeting of a small group of friends in their early thirties with gender nonconforming and queer identities and life histories. The group interacted in VR-based environments, where they engaged in two different forms of constructionist learning experiences: creating 3D sculptures of personally meaningful objects, and re-creating their VR avatars in VR social media. Our analysis illustrates how such experiences can be productively analyzed using social constructivist perspectives that situate knowing as boundary play and figured worlds, and the roles that play and friendship have in supporting deep and critical engagement with complex narratives and marginalized experiences of gender and sexuality.