[Commlist] new issue Funes Journal vol. 8/2025 published - Imaginary Metaverses. Contested Narratives Of Immersive And Mixed Realities

*Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences*
Open access double blinded peer review
Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0)

*New issue Vol 8 2025: Imaginary Metaverses. Contested Narratives Of 
Immersive And Mixed Realities*
Editors: Paolo Bory (Politecnico di Milano), Gianluigi Negro (University 
of Siena)

"The announcement of the metaverse is quite a unique case in digital 
media history. Unlike previous product launches, the metaverse was 
introduced not as a stabilized medium or platform but as a promissory 
assemblage: a future socio-technical system made of interoperable 
“worlds” and grounded in new and more exciting interactions during 
working and leisure activities. This issue of Funes illustrates the 
contested imaginaries of the metaverse, oscillating between Zuckerberg's 
utopia (or dystopia) and a complete failure, which confirms the need for 
a symmetrical and more nuanced approach in analysing such phenomena. The 
metaverse imaginaries are already contributing to the present and future 
of MR and will likely give rise to unexpected practices and new forms of 
“worldings”, yet to be discovered, but not to be left unexplored in the 
making.”

Link to the 
journal: https://serena.sharepress.it/index.php/funes/issue/view/895

/*Index*/

/p. 1 /Introduction One, none, a hundred thousand metaverses Paolo Bory, 
Gianluigi Negro


PAPERS

/p. 4 /The neverending story: Illusions of limitlessness and abundance 
in the metaverse Chris Hesselbein

/p. 17 /Spaces and imaginaries of the metaverse. The myth of the 
virtuality of the Internet at Horizon Federico Biggio

/p. 28 /From technological utopia to a new carrier of 
civilization：Discourse generation and cultural practice of Chinese-style 
cultural metaverse in the global context Jia Dongjiao

/p. 47 /Making worlds, worlding metaverses. A comparative study of 
metaverse developers and users in Italy Fabio Iapaolo, Marcus Pingitore


INSIGHTS

/p. 70 /Disentangling the China metaverse Gianluigi Negro (Ed.), Paolo 
Bory (Ed.), Ji Deqiang, Xie Xuefang, Liu Hailong


REVIEWS

/p. 81 /Luca Di Majo e Gino Frezza, /Il Metaverso. Profili strutturali, 
socio-mediologici, economici e giuridici/, Mimesis 2025 Francesco D’Ambrosio


contacts: (atelier.funes /at/ gmail.com); (bory /at/ unina.it); (info /at/ valeriopellegrini.com)



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