Full Description
This book sets out cutting-edge new research and examines future prospects on 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) in journalism, analyzing and discussing virtual world experiments from a range of perspectives.
Featuring contributions from a diverse range of scholars, Immersive Journalism as Storytelling highlights both the opportunities and the challenges presented by this form of storytelling. The book discusses how immersive journalism has the potential to reach new audiences, change the way stories are told, and provide more interactivity within the news industry. Aside from generating deeper emotional reactions and global perspectives, the book demonstrates how it can also diversify and upskill the news industry. Further contributions address the challenges, examining how immersive storytelling calls for reassessing issues of journalism ethics and truthfulness, transparency, privacy, manipulation, and surveillance, and questioning what it means to cover reality when a story is told in virtual reality. Chapters are grounded in empirical data such as content analyses and expert interviews, alongside insightful case studies that discuss Euronews, Nonny de la Peña's Project Syria, and The New York Times' NYTVR application.
This book is written for journalism teachers, educators, and students, as well as scholars, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens with an interest in emerging technologies for media practice.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367713294, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Contents
Introduction: What is Immersive Journalism?
Part I: Storytelling
Exploring the Immersive Journalism Landscape
Esa Sirkkunen, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, Turo Uskali, and Heli Väätäjä
Case Euronews: A Low-Cost Approach to Immersive Storytelling
Joakim Vindenes and Astrid Gynnild
Global Perspectives of Immersive Journalism
Sarah Jones
Part II: Ethics
The Impact of Emotions in Immersive Journalism
Turo Uskali and Pasi Ikonen
Project Syria: Accuracy in Immersive Journalism
Siri Flatlandsmo and Astrid Gynnild
Promises and Perils in Immersive Journalism
Deborah G. Johnson
It's Not Just about Empathy: Going beyond the Empathy Machine in Immersive Journalism
Sarah Jones
Part III: Production and Design
Place-Based Journalism, Aesthetics, and Branding
David O. Dowling
Case Study: Creating A Business Value in Immersive Journalism
Ilona Ilvonen, Joel Vanhalakka and Nina Helander
The Hierarchy of Needs for User Experiences in Virtual Reality
Chelsea Kelling, Heli Väätäjä, Otto Kauhanen, Jussi Karhu, Markku Turunen, Vesa Lindqvist, and Pasi Ikonen
Immersive Gaming as Journalism
Jonne Arjoranta, Raine Koskimaa and Marko Siitonen
Augmented Reality as News
Pasi Ikonen and Turo Uskali
Part IV: Education
Teaching Immersive Journalism
Turo Uskali and Pasi Ikonen
Immersive Journalism as Witnessing
Lars Nyre and Joakim Vindenes
Forecasting Future Trajectories for Immersive Journalism
Turo Uskali, Astrid Gynnild, Esa Sirkkunen, and Sarah Jones
