Ithaca College

Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, was featured in a major profile interview as the lead article for Immerse magazine from MIT.

The interview focused on concepts elaborated in her new book coauthored with Helen De Michiel, Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2018).

The book provides a conceptual model for analyzing international collaborative new media projects on polarizing political issues such as sea level rise, the Great Famine in China, migrants in Malaysia, gentrification in Philadelphia, Palestine hidden histories, forced sterilization in Peru.

Funded by the MIT Open DocLab, the Fledging Fund, and the MacArthur Foundation, Immerse is an online magazine for creative discussion of emerging nonfiction storytelling.

It features stories on how user participation, mobile, social, and gaming have unsettled documentary and journalism. Immerse is designed to create a widespread public conversation around emerging media forms of nonfiction from across the globe.

The interview with Zimmermann and De Michiel can be accessed HERE.