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Matthew Adams is a doctoral researcher employing psychological and cybernetic approaches to the experience of minorities and marginalized communities in China. Matthew’s research interests are in emergent technologies that affect sociality (AR/VR and ‘metaverse’, HCI, AI, and algorithmic systems in social media), the anthropology of emotion, visual and digital anthropology and sociology, and the use of psychoanalytic methods in social research. Since completing his master’s degree in psychological and psychiatric anthropology, Matthew has conducted research with virtual communities in VR, on massively-multiplayer video games, and on social media, and in the UK, US, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.