How to Set Up a New Virtual World? An Online Discussion

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On December 18, at 12:30 Moscow time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club hosted an online discussion, titled “How to Set Up a New Virtual World?”

The coronavirus pandemic has boosted the development of the virtual world. Today it exists alongside the more familiar world of offline communications. What is the threat posed by virtuality? Is it possible to reproduce the human communication institutions in the virtual world? Which of these institutions are needed in the first place? How will the virtual world change after the pandemic? The participants in the discussion answered these and other questions.

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Filter Bubbles in the Digital Tsunami

On December 18, the Valdai Club held a discussion titled “How to Set Up a New Virtual World?” In the opening remarks, Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had catalyzed the processes taking place in the field of communication. He compared “new media” to nuclear weapons, which must be controlled in order to avoid disaster. Perhaps, he suggested, it is necessary to create institutions for the virtual world, similar to those of the real world.

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Valdai Club to Discuss Post-Pandemic Virtual World

On December 18, at 12:30 Moscow time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an online discussion, titled “How to Set Up a New Virtual World?”

15.12.2020

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How to Set Up a New Virtual World? An Online Discussion

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