Telling Stories in the Dark: A Feminist Thinks With Virtual Reality
Connell-Whitney, Lauren (2020) Telling Stories in the Dark: A Feminist Thinks With Virtual Reality. Masters thesis, OCAD University.
Item Type: | Thesis |
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Creators: | Connell-Whitney, Lauren |
Abstract: | This work explores how women can share knowledge through storytelling in the virtual space using a Virtual Reality (VR) headset, to understand how spaces of quiet and being alone, like one might experience in a virtual reality headset can allow for reflective and generative knowledge sharing. Here and in a VR space I created, I share my own stories of how feminism has shaped my life, using storytelling to examine why we might place importance on personal reflection as a form of cultural growth. The VR space, Aspasias, functions as a pilot project to bring these stories into the virtual space to share them with others. Aspasias uses a rhizomatic structure as a cue to navigate through the complexity and multiplicity of knowledge that makes its way into the shape of a story. My hypothesis is that the qualities of presence and immersion in VR can enhance the telling of a story and that the use of a headset as a form of sensory concentration (or some might say, deprivation) can allow for the user to reflect on the story differently than one might in a non-virtual space. The findings of this research contribute to how we might think of VR as a space for reflective (un)learning through personal narrative and how story can make its way into the virtual commons. |
Official URL: | https://tellingstoriesinthedark.format.com/ |
Date: | 3 April 2020 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Virtual Reality, Feminism, Storytelling, Generativity, Personal Narrative, Rhizomatic Learning, Auto-Ethnography, Research-Creation, Feminist Entrepreneurship. |
Divisions: | Graduate Studies > Digital Futures |
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2020 03:12 |
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2021 21:15 |
URI: | https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3013 |
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