{"653252":{"#nid":"653252","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What is the metaverse and why is Facebook so obsessed with it?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJanet Murray,\u0026nbsp;a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, as well as director of the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center, appeared on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Inquiry\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;podcast, a production of the BBC,\u0026nbsp;on Sunday, November 18, 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the podcast, Murray explains what the Metaverse is and Facebook\u0026#39;s interest in it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI think their main motivation here is that they are hoping that this is new territory and that they can colonize it so that every time anybody uses a virtual reality or an augmented reality application they will be providing data to Facebook or Meta, as it\u0026#39;s now called...\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35926","created_gmt":"2021-11-30 19:38:27","changed_gmt":"2021-11-30 19:38:27","author":"schurchman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3ct1z2x","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652268":{"id":"652268","type":"image","title":"Janet Murray","body":null,"created":"1635772386","gmt_created":"2021-11-01 13:13:06","changed":"1635772386","gmt_changed":"2021-11-01 13:13:06","alt":"Janet Murray","file":{"fid":"247465","name":"JanetMurrayWeb2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JanetMurrayWeb2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JanetMurrayWeb2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48080,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JanetMurrayWeb2.jpg?itok=EM4ofyAi"}}},"media_ids":["652268"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}