Virtual Reality & Gender. Vocaloid versus Hatsune Miku an “android diva”

Abstract

In the present issue of Luciérnaga- Comunicación N19, it is proposed a reflection about virtual reality and gender as it is necessary to raise and revise new topics and approaches to justify the validity and topicality of the works in communication field. The daily, concrete and symbolic facts confirm that need.

About the mosaic of the communicative culture several studies have been developed, but they are not enough. In this paper it is suggested the analysis of the ancestral sexist values opposed to the fiction of the mental and real liberation that sustains the use and appropriation of technological tools; but
the issue does not end there, it is also important to understand phenomena such as the new patterns of social behavior and collective creativity around virtual reality, the hyper-development, uses and applications of technology. We should wonder ourselves about the communication sense in terms of the “Technological Frankenstein”, who might obscure and lose the communication sense [1]; and
also to understand phenomena such as the musical products created and recreated, at the same time, collectively and corporately as the Japanese musical synthesizer Vocaloid, with which the darkness of new technologies can be challenge and denied.