“Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships” is the title of the thematic dossier just published in the new issue of Aniki – Portuguese Magazine of the Moving Image (www.aim.org.pt/aniki), edited by Victor Flores (Lusófona University), Susana S. Martins (Nova University of Lisbon) and John Plunkett (University of Exeter), researchers in the Curiositas project (curiositas.ulusofona.pt). This dossier includes papers on VR and immersion by Michael Walter, Francisco Merino, Taís de Barros and Roberto Tietzmann, and Filipe Martins. It also includes the text “Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships: Notes on a Reinvented Field” co-authored by Victor Flores and Susana Martins.
The cover image was kindly provided by José Bértolo.
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