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Imaginary Metaverses. Contested Narratives Of Immersive And Mixed Realities
V. 8 (2025)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.
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Serial Worlds, Complex Societies – Part 2. Television Series And Sociocultural Mutations
V. 7 N. 2 (2024)Why has television seriality begun to acquire an increasingly central role in the cultural
consumption and media consumptions of millions of people, with its impact becoming more
evident since the 2010s? Among the many analyses addressing this question, one of the most well-founded examines the connection between the distribution modes of platformized seriality and the temporality experienced by millions of young people and adults worldwide. -
Global Maradona: man, athlete, celebrity, idol, hero, myth
V. 5 (2021)The FUNES and ERACLE journals joint special issue aims to investigate, along a comparative spectrum, the global and local extent of the Maradona phenomenon.
It is hard to find, in the champions pantheon of the sport history, a person who has experienced the same public consideration as the one for Diego Armando Maradona. Always on the stage, always drawing everyone’s attention, never an ordinary man.
If both in Argentina and in Naples the “pibe de oro” has easily become a significant icon of popular culture and tradition, on an international scale the resonance of his figure and the planetary roar generated by his death, lead us to reflect upon a global cultural phenomenon full of facets, interpretations and multiple considerations.
