Editing Metaverse (section)

=== Social issues ===
Metaverse development may magnify the social impacts of online [[Echo chamber (media)|echo chambers]] and digitally alienating spaces<ref name=":032" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite magazine |last=Shou |first=Darren |title=I Want My Daughter to Live in a Better Metaverse |url=https://www.wired.com/story/i-want-my-daughter-to-live-in-a-better-metaverse/ |url-status=live |magazine=Wired |issn=1059-1028 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910165607/https://www.wired.com/story/i-want-my-daughter-to-live-in-a-better-metaverse/ |archive-date=September 10, 2021 |access-date=November 1, 2021}}</ref> or abuse common social media engagement strategies to manipulate users with biased content.<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peck |first=Andrew |date=2020 |title=A Problem of Amplification: Folklore and Fake News in the Age of Social Media |journal=Journal of American Folklore |volume=133 |issue=529 |pages=329–351 |doi=10.5406/jamerfolk.133.529.0329 |issn=1535-1882 |s2cid=243130538}}</ref> Keza MacDonald of ''[[The Guardian]]'' criticized the utopianism of technology companies who claim that a metaverse could be a reprieve from worker exploitation, [[prejudice]], and [[discrimination]]. MacDonald stated that they would be more positive towards metaverse development if it was not dominated by "companies and disaster capitalists trying to figure out a way to make more money as the real world's resources are dwindling."<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacDonald |first=Keza |date=January 25, 2022 |title=I've seen the metaverse – and I don't want it |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/25/ive-seen-the-metaverse-and-i-dont-want-it |access-date=January 27, 2022 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Marketing professor [[Andreas Kaplan]], citing their experience studying ''[[Second Life]]'' users, argues that the metaverse may have a generally negative societal impact due to their strongly addictive potential.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaplan|first=Andreas|date=November 2, 2021|title=Facebook's Metaverse: A nightmare turning into reality?|url=https://thechoice.escp.eu/tl-dr/facebooks-metaverse-a-nightmare-turning-into-reality/|access-date=March 10, 2022|website=ESCP}}</ref> People with physical disabilities like [[deafness]] or [[blindness]] are disadvantaged without technologies addressed to [[Assistive technology|accessibility]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Allam |first1=Zaheer |last2=Sharifi |first2=Ayyoob |last3=Bibri |first3=Simon Elias |last4=Jones |first4=David Sydney |last5=Krogstie |first5=John |date=July 8, 2022 |title=The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures |journal=Smart Cities |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=771–801 |doi=10.3390/smartcities5030040 |issn=2624-6511 |doi-access=free|hdl=11250/3051264 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>