Immersive Journalism and Telepresence

Kang, Seok; O'Brien, Erin; Villarreal, Arturo; Lee, Wansoo; Mahood, Chad

doi:10.1080/21670811.2018.1504624

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“…Users had reservations about the technology, but saw great potential for its use (Nielsen and Sheets 2019, p. 1). Meanwhile, an experimental study conducted by Kang et al (2019) showed that groups using VR headsets and 360 • videos in order to consume information rated content credibility higher than the control group in the study (p. 306), suggesting that VR technology offers the additional opportunity for digital journalism to counteract a potential lack of credibility.…”

Section: The Emotional 'Empathy Machine' and Its Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 94%

An Immersive Journey through Flawed Technology: Users’ Perceptions of VR in Journalism

Godulla

Planer

Wolf

et al. 2021

Journalism and Media

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Virtual reality (VR) has had the reputation of being a revolutionising technology ever since it emerged in the early 1960s, but virtual is not yet a successful reality in journalistic practice. Examining VR’s current situation and the factors preventing it from reaching its predicted potential in digital journalism, this paper analyses the user comments (n = 770) on 15 journalistic VR apps offered by media organizations, with the help of a qualitative-reductive content analysis. Deductive categories of analysis contain the constructs of immersion, emotion, usability, and utility, which are further specified by inductive subcategories in the course of the analysis. Results show that users positively highlight different aspects of emotion and immersion that the VR apps elicit, and criticize journalistic VR apps for their low levels of utility and usability. Implications for journalistic practice and research are subsequently drawn.

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Section: The Emotional 'Empathy Machine' and Its Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 94%

An Immersive Journey through Flawed Technology: Users’ Perceptions of VR in Journalism

Godulla

Planer

Wolf

et al. 2021

Journalism and Media

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“…Another challenge is providing a vivid representation of the current news story rather than separating facts from opinions in the usual way adopted by traditional reporters or narrators. This kind of storytelling must be dealt with carefully otherwise it may degrade the capabilities of telling the truth to the public and, consequently, lead to ethical dilemmas [ 13 , 20 , 25 , 28 , 35 , 39 ]. Designers, thus, inevitably face the challenge of balancing news reporting and conveying the facts accurately in immersive VR news.…”

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Design and development of an immersive virtual reality news application: a case study of the SARS event

Cai

Liu

et al. 2020

Multimed Tools Appl

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In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technologies have been applied to the field of journalism, where the concept of immersive VR news has been proposed. However, despite the fanfare, strong response, and sensational effect caused by its advent, immersive VR news remains a novel journalism paradigm that faces new challenges in its production process. Currently, there is a lack of a unified design framework, and, since most studies in this area have focused on noninteractive VR news, the understanding of the effects of more interactive VR technologies on the news consumer remains inadequate. In this study, we propose a more practical design framework for immersive VR news products. Following this framework, we designed a VR news application and conducted user evaluation in terms of media effects and user experience. Based on the experimental findings, which demonstrated that non-interactive VR news products resulted in a distracting user experience and less immersion, while interactive VR news offered improved media effects and user experience, we then derived concrete design guidelines for immersive VR news design. Finally, we highlight that this study provides a theoretical and practical reference framework for the further study of VR news.

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“…Diez años después de esta definición, los medios de comunicación a nivel mundial ofrecen ya -aunque no de manera generalizada-este tipo de producciones inmersivas entre sus contenidos. Esta utilización de la RV y el vídeo en 360º para abordar los contenidos informativos ha sido también objeto de interés en la literatura científica (Benítez y Herrera, 2017; Bujic y Amari, 2020; Colussi y Reis, 2020; Kang et al, 2019;Paíno y Rodríguez, 2019;Pérez-Seijo y López-García, 2019;Santos, 2019).…”

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Del espectador pasivo al experiencial: la realidad virtual en la información deportiva

Ambrosio

Fidalgo

2020

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Virtual Reality (VR) and 360º video have been introduced in a novel way in recent years in the journalistic field thanks to their narrative potentialities. Their characteristics have not gone unnoticed within the field of sports reporting, which already has a high audience in any traditional or cybernetic media, giving it a greater attraction now. One of the changes introduced by these productions is their form of consumption. Within this context, this research arises, focused on immersive journalism. Under a qualitative and quantitative perspective, 225 sports productions randomly selected from the main technical platforms that provide VR and video content in 360º are analyzed. The perspective of the analysis focuses on the changes produced in the sports viewer. The main findings show that one of the innovations of this type of immersive storytelling directly affects the role of the spectator, who no longer adopts a passive attitude but becomes a protagonist of the sport. New experiences of sports consumption are beginning to be generated where the treatment of information, to a certain extent, is relegated to second place, in relation to traditional journalistic criteria. We are in front of a new sports spectator.

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Immersive Journalism and Telepresence

Cited by 58 publications

References 38 publications

An Immersive Journey through Flawed Technology: Users’ Perceptions of VR in Journalism

An Immersive Journey through Flawed Technology: Users’ Perceptions of VR in Journalism

Design and development of an immersive virtual reality news application: a case study of the SARS event

Del espectador pasivo al experiencial: la realidad virtual en la información deportiva

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