[ecrea] cfp Immersion: Classifications, Definitions and Explorations

*Call for Papers*

*Immersion: Classifications, Definitions and Explorations*

We are happy to accept articles for the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary 
yearbook Jahrbuch immersiver Medien/Yearbook of Immersive Media. The 
2011 issue is entitled 'Immersion: Classifications, Definitions and 
Explorations'.

The yearbook is published in German and English. Each issue is devoted 
to special topics dealing with aspects of immersive media. It is 
published by the Department of Media and the Centre for Culture and 
Science Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel, 
Germany. Immersive media are understood broadly as media which posess 
immersive potential in that they can bridge the gap between media user 
and medium. This generally implies that the recipient's body or psyche 
are captured or infected by narrative or interactive aspects of media in 
a way that he or she imagines to become part of mediated spaces or 
interactive situations. Immersive media, thereby, foster the physical, 
sensual and/or psychological submersion of media recipients and mediated 
content (as can, for instance, be observed in stereoscopic films, 
virtual reality environments and video games).

The yearbook is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary publication aimed at 
an international academic readership. Its focus lies upon multimedia or 
audiovisual media (360-degree projections, visual culture, film, video 
games, etc.).

An indicative list of suitable topics for articles may include:

- technology and theory of immersive media

- towards a definition of immersion

- perception and aesthetics of immersive media

- characteristics of immersive media in contrast to similar phenomena

- narrative concepts for immersive media

- psychological preconditions of immersion

- historical developments of immersive media

- application of immersive media

Submitted articles must be original contributions that engage with 
recent studies dealing with immersive theory and practice. Contributions 
should be 5000 to 8000 words in length. Please send an abtract, brief 
biographical information and contact details and your article to 
(immersive-medien /at/ fh-kiel.de). A style sheet can be obtained through our 
website at www.immersive-medien.de.

Best wishes,

Patrick Kruse

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Fachhochschule Kiel / University of Applied Sciences

Fachbereich Medien / Department of Media

Dr. Patrick Kruse

Immersive Medientheorie

Grenzstraße 3, Raum C12-1.67

24149 Kiel

Telefon: +49 431 210-4512

E-Mail: (patrick.kruse /at/ fh-kiel.de) <mailto:(patrick.kruse /at/ fh-kiel.de)>

Internet: www.medien.fh-kiel.de <http://www.medien.fh-kiel.de/>

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Zweite interdisziplinäre Konferenz /Illusion-Immersion-Involvement/ vom 
28. -- 29.10.2011

auf dem Campus der Fachhochschule Kiel.

Weitere Informationen: www.konferenz-iii.de