After many years since the first attempts to offer an immersive experience beyond the computer screen, it was in 2021 that the term Virtual Reality came back into the limelight when at the Connect! conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company (renamed Meta) would invest precisely in the development of new immersive experiences. The re-launch of Virtual Reality is of particular interest for two reasons. Firstly, the Metaverse is accompanied by vision of the future, which, as Hoffman summarises, serves to stabilise the meaning and potential uses of the technology...

Journalism is constantly undergoing profound transformations, and now it is also intersecting and colliding with the gamification of digital spaces. Driven by interactivity, multimedia, and global access to information, these changes are contextualized within the broader discourse on immersive digital technologies, including virtual and augmented reality, which have transformed storytelling into a participatory and multisensory experience...

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During the fall of 1997, the first complex of multiplexes was inaugurated in Italy by the Warner Village group. At the dawn of the new millennium, multiplexes account for more than 50 percent of the Italian cinema market, in terms of box office and tickets sold...

The National Afterwork Club (Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro or OND) played an important role in establishing small-town film exhibition in the 1930s. This article aims to reconstruct the peculiar and overlooked role of the agency in the context of Italian Fascist cinema policies. The analysis takes into consideration OND’s official publications, national and regional data (the latter from the CinEx research project), and municipal archives..

At the beginning of 1968, Parma had approximately fifteen movie theaters. These are years when venues become an active part of political discourse, serving as a tool that sought new forms of production, distribution and exhibition. The first University Film Studies courses were established, and it gained popularity, expanding through courses, festivals and seminaries [Grassi 1978, Chiesi 1999, Flores, De Bernardi 2003]. Film studies became an integral part of the institutional program and a central focus during high school assemblies and university student organizations, such as Centro Universitario Cinematografico or Collettivo Cinema Libero, two of the most significant entities of the period...

This essay explores the history of state-owned movie theaters in San Marino from the 1980s to today. In San Marino, there are no private cinemas; the State has managed all movie theaters since 1983. Using archival research, oral history, audience data, and interviews, this study examines the connection between film culture, public funding, and the moviegoing experience in San Marino...