TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the Darkverse
T2 - A Multi-Perspective Analysis of the Negative Societal Impacts of the Metaverse
AU - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
AU - Kshetri, Nir
AU - Hughes, Laurie
AU - Rana, Nripendra P.
AU - Baabdullah, Abdullah M.
AU - Kar, Arpan Kumar
AU - Koohang, Alex
AU - Ribeiro-Navarrete, Samuel
AU - Belei, Nina
AU - Balakrishnan, Janarthanan
AU - Basu, Sriparna
AU - Behl, Abhishek
AU - Davies, Gareth H.
AU - Dutot, Vincent
AU - Dwivedi, Rohita
AU - Evans, Leighton
AU - Felix, Reto
AU - Foster-Fletcher, Richard
AU - Giannakis, Mihalis
AU - Gupta, Ashish
AU - Hinsch, Chris
AU - Jain, Animesh
AU - Jane Patel, Nina
AU - Jung, Timothy
AU - Juneja, Satinder
AU - Kamran, Qeis
AU - Mohamed AB, Sanjar
AU - Pandey, Neeraj
AU - Papagiannidis, Savvas
AU - Raman, Ramakrishnan
AU - Rauschnabel, Philipp A.
AU - Tak, Preeti
AU - Taylor, Alexandra
AU - tom Dieck, M. Claudia
AU - Viglia, Giampaolo
AU - Wang, Yichuan
AU - Yan, Meiyi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - The Metaverse has the potential to form the next pervasive computing archetype that can transform many aspects of work and life at a societal level. Despite the many forecasted benefits from the metaverse, its negative outcomes have remained relatively unexplored with the majority of views grounded on logical thoughts derived from prior data points linked with similar technologies, somewhat lacking academic and expert perspective. This study responds to the dark side perspectives through informed and multifaceted narratives provided by invited leading academics and experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The metaverse dark side perspectives covered include: technological and consumer vulnerability, privacy, and diminished reality, human–computer interface, identity theft, invasive advertising, misinformation, propaganda, phishing, financial crimes, terrorist activities, abuse, pornography, social inclusion, mental health, sexual harassment and metaverse-triggered unintended consequences. The paper concludes with a synthesis of common themes, formulating propositions, and presenting implications for practice and policy.
AB - The Metaverse has the potential to form the next pervasive computing archetype that can transform many aspects of work and life at a societal level. Despite the many forecasted benefits from the metaverse, its negative outcomes have remained relatively unexplored with the majority of views grounded on logical thoughts derived from prior data points linked with similar technologies, somewhat lacking academic and expert perspective. This study responds to the dark side perspectives through informed and multifaceted narratives provided by invited leading academics and experts from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The metaverse dark side perspectives covered include: technological and consumer vulnerability, privacy, and diminished reality, human–computer interface, identity theft, invasive advertising, misinformation, propaganda, phishing, financial crimes, terrorist activities, abuse, pornography, social inclusion, mental health, sexual harassment and metaverse-triggered unintended consequences. The paper concludes with a synthesis of common themes, formulating propositions, and presenting implications for practice and policy.
KW - Dark side of the metaverse
KW - Metaverse
KW - Negative consequences
KW - Second life
KW - Unintended consequences
KW - Virtual reality
KW - Virtual world
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160827818&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10796-023-10400-x
DO - 10.1007/s10796-023-10400-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85160827818
SN - 1387-3326
VL - 25
SP - 2071
EP - 2114
JO - Information systems frontiers
JF - Information systems frontiers
IS - 5
ER -