[ecrea] Special Issue about "Immersive processes in media culture"

Over many decades of study in various fields of knowledge, ideas like 
"dive into an ocean", "drifting", "losing touch with reality", among 
others, were used as metaphors for immersion in addition to a 
connotation nearly to the idea of absorption and attentional engagement 
on an activity. However, especially with the growth and access to new 
technologies in the construction of hybrid increasingly worlds, studies 
of immersion have been gaining new perspectives and different theories 
about the phenomenon have been revisited.

Thus, our interest with the proposal for a special issue on "Immersive 
processes in media culture" is to include the most recent studies on the 
phenomenon of immersion in various fields of knowledge production. We 
are interested in understanding the different approaches to immersive 
processes through the media and their methodological consolidations for 
the understanding of the phenomenon. Themes as the body of the subject 
in interrelation with media objects, the experience of interaction and 
absorption of new technologies of communication, the systems of 
spectatorship that promote immersion in various media, the relationship 
between immersion and construction of fictional worlds, the suspension 
of disbelief and active creation of belief, immersion as a performance 
in contemporary scenes, different types of immersion in various areas of 
knowledge, and other related subjects that include some of the phenomena 
interwoven in contemporary immersive processes, are of interest for this 
special issue.

We will be receiving contributions for this special issue until March 15th.

We also recall that the several thematic section remain open during the 
year, getting articles on the various spheres that encompass communication.

Contracampo is a Brazilian quarterly journal of Post-graduate Program in 
Communication form Federal Fluminense University (PPGCOM-UFF), which 
aims to contribute for critical reflection in the field of media 
studies, acting as a circulation space for research and academic 
thinking. In this sense, it is open to researchers around the world 
connected to the area of communication and related topics, through the 
publication of original articles, essays, reviews and interviews.

For more information, visit:

http://www.uff.br/contracampo/index.php/revista/index

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