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In this video, co-author D. Fox Harrell discusses \u201cReimagining the Avatar Dream,\u201d a Contributed Article in the July 2017 Communications of the ACM that argues for the need to reconsider the social and cultural impacts of creating social networks based on virtual identities.<\/p>\n

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