What are the ethical issues of virtual reality in Ready Player One?

What are the ethical issues of virtual reality in Ready Player One?

Discipline:
Communications and Media

Type of service:
Essay

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Single spacing

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Not applicable

Number of pages:
4 pages

Number of sources:
15 sources

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I need the essay to be written in British English, please. Harvard style for the Bibliography. I want to talk about Ready Player One both the book and the film, so there’s more to write about. In this essay, I would like to explore the idea of how moral the idea of a virtual reality is. How ethical is it for the service provider to make the user feel pain? Is it acceptable for users to kill each other inside of the virtual world? How does death within a VR universe affect the players in the real world? WHat about the economy and the time that people spend in a virtual world?

Bibliography: You can use this if you think is good and relevant or use your own sources.

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Liptay, F. (2015) Neither here nor there: The paradoxes of immersion, Studies in intermediality.
Nordstrom, J (2016) A pleasant place for the world to hide: Exploring themes of utopian play in Ready Player One, interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory.