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How are we telling stories about the world today—and why? User participation, mobile, social, and gaming have already unsettled the waters of documentary and journalism. With the advent of a new wave of extended reality, this is a critical moment. We need a widespread public conversation around emerging media forms from across the globe because these new modes of storytelling are poised to shape the ways that billions of people learn, communicate, and understand themselves and the world. With a curious and critical eye, Immerse publishes regular features and special, focused issues on an array of topics, including artificial intelligence, equity in tech, networked activism, and more. We are concerned with serious questions about the ethics, impact, and implications of emerging forms, but also celebrate the explosion of creativity and wild experimentation that’s happening at the moment. Immerse is co-produced by MIT Open DocLab and Dot Connector Studio. It receives funding from Just Films | Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. The Gotham Film & Media Institute is our fiscal sponsor.