Doing Tech Right Using Virtual Reality to Fight Racism
Nov 29, 2023
30:27
What does it feel like to experience racism as a black teen boy or adult male?
Dr. Courtney Cogburn, associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty at the Columbia Population Research Center and Data Science Institute, hopes her virtual reality experience, “1,000 Cut Journey,” will help viewers better understand both what it feels like and how racism plays out in our society.
“I thought maybe people need to walk in the experience, maybe they need to have a more personal connection that's less intellectual…so [VR] presented an opportunity to do that,” Cogburn says.
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Dr. Courtney Cogburn, associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty at the Columbia Population Research Center and Data Science Institute, hopes her virtual reality experience, “1,000 Cut Journey,” will help viewers better understand both what it feels like and how racism plays out in our society.
“I thought maybe people need to walk in the experience, maybe they need to have a more personal connection that's less intellectual…so [VR] presented an opportunity to do that,” Cogburn says.
Listen to Using Virtual Reality to Fight Racism from Are We Doing Tech Right? now.