Towards a Media MultiverseContemporary discourses around Extended Reality (XR) is increasingly dominated by the metaphor of the Metaverse, which envisions a unified, immersive, and algorithmically controlled media environment.
doi
10.1145/3800935.3830841
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Towards a Media Multiverse
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830841
authors
Mattia Thibault
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830841
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
Contemporary discourses around Extended Reality (XR) is increasingly dominated by the metaphor of the Metaverse, which envisions a unified, immersive, and algorithmically controlled media environment.
keywords
Metaverse; Media Ideology; Counternarrative; Interreal translation; Metaphors
published
2026-09-14
conference
HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830841
ccs_concepts
CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia ; • Information systems~Massively multiplayer online games; • Information systems → Multimedia content creation ; • Applied computing~Language translation;
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Mattia Thibault
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
acm_reference_format
ACM Reference Format: Mattia Thibault. 2026. Towards a Media Multiverse. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 4 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830841