NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies

20/06/2026

NOW ONLINE: Our Spring 2026 issue! The Features section explores memory and marginality, media activism, digital becoming, sensor media, politics of opacity and sensibility, as well as (dis)possession and displacement.

Editorial NECSUS by Toni Pape, Giuseppe Fidotta, Sofia Sampaio, Greg de Cuir Jr, Ilona Hongisto, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Maria A. Vélez Serna, and Andrea Virginás Archiveologies of the nation and

07/07/2025

Congratulations! The BAFTSS award for videographic criticism was given to Veronika Hanáková, Martin Tremčinský and Jiří Anger for their piece "Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives." This audiovisual essay was published in the Autumn 2023_ issue of NECSUS. Check it out here:

by Veronika Hanáková, Martin Tremčinský, Jiří Anger

30/06/2025

NOW ONLINE: Our Spring 2025 issue . With video essays from the Locarno Film Festival and book, festival and exhibition reviews. Check it out here:

Editorial NECSUS by Toni Pape, Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Ilona Hongisto, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Maria A. Vélez Serna, and Andrea Virginás

11/12/2024

NOW ONLINE: What is the use of limits – and of pushing past them? The NECSUS Autumn 2024 issue presents various perspectives on what might mean in the field of media studies.

https://necsus-ejms.org/portfolio/autumn-2024_enough/

13/09/2024

The second edition of the Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial (BUAM) invites the audience to think critically about our relationship with screens.

Read Annet Dekker's interview with Mexican curator and researcher Doreen A. Ríos here: https://necsus-ejms.org/liquid-spaces-politics-of-the-screen-an-interview-with-doreen-a-rios/

09/09/2024

In "Why (film) festivals? Virtual reality experiences at a crossroads’", part of our section on VR, Philippe Bédard considers the limitations of festivals as an exhibition site for the burgeoning medium of VR films.

It was in October 2015 at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) that I first encountered virtual reality (VR) as we know it today. Since then, I have attended

09/09/2024

ONE MORE WEEK to submit your abstract (300 words) for our Spring 2025_ – we are interested in feature articles engaging with topics related to film and television, digital media, game studies, media history and more.

here: https://necsus-ejms.org/necsus-call-for-proposals-features-spring-2025/

04/09/2024

The challenges and advantages of exhibiting VR at festivals: In conversation with Marijke de Valck, Dutch VR artist Nemo Vos discusses his approach to VR and his vision of the role played by film festivals in making VR available.

Read the interview here: /

Dutch artist Nemo Vos discusses his approach to VR and his vision of the role played by film festivals in making VR available. Reflecting on the premiere of his work 8 Billion Selves at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024, Vos addresses both the challenges and advantages of exhibiting VR a...

02/09/2024

In 2016, Venice International Film Festival introduced an immersive section, which developed into a core Virtual Reality (VR) competition the following year. The Venice Immersive section has now expanded to cover all forms of Extended Reality (XR), including Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR), and large-scale projection.

Rounding off our section on VR, Anja Boato interviews Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac, the curators of the XR section at the Venice International Film Festival.

https://necsus-ejms.org/the-future-of-the-screen-exploring-venice-immersive-with-liz-rosenthal-and-michel-reilhac/

29/08/2024

The section of our Spring 2024_ issue is dedicated to virtual reality – starting off with Da Ye Kim's historical overview of the emergence of VR at international film festival networks.

Read "The two sides of VR utopias" here:

At the center of Lazzaretto Vecchio, the immersive island of the Venice Film Festival, there is an open social space where directors, producers, press,