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Immersive Journalism

Virtual Reality and the Future of the News Industry

Edited by Tomás Dodds - Contributions by Samuel Akpe; Jan Lauren Boyles; Kaixin Cheng; Tomás Dodds; Andrea Hudson; Samantha-Kaye Johnston; Seok Kang; Zixuan Li; Tijmen Koppelaar; Desmond Onyemechi Okocha; Ivanka Pjesivac; Valeria Resendez; Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws; Daniela Schlütz; Alan Shipman; Marc Verboord; Ann Vogel; Moritz Wever; Shangyuan Wu and Wang Ngai Yeung

This volume explores the rise of immersive technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 videos in the newsroom and how they affect newsmaking for journalists, news sources, and audiences. As these technologies offer journalists new and exciting opportunities to connect more deeply, emotionally, and presently with their audience, they also introduce unique ethical and practical questions concerning the collection and use of biometric, sensory, and metadata. Contributors analyze this shift from passive consumption to active engagement in order to investigate the positive and negative impacts that immersive technologies can have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection. Ultimately, this volume highlights both the potential for these technologies to redefine the relationship between news producers and consumers and the potential challenges their integration may pose. Scholars of journalism, communication, science & technology studies, and digital media will find this book particularly useful.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 254 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-66693-860-9 • Hardback • April 2024 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
Series: Studies in New Media
Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism

Tomás Dodds is assistant professor of journalism and new media at Leiden University and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Part I

Chapter 1: Immersive Journalism After the VR Hype from Media Professionals’ Perspective

Chapter 2: Immersive Journalism Skills as Cultural Capital: Gaining Legitimacy in the Contemporary Newsroom

Chapter 3: Immersive Journalism and Emerging News Values of Emotional Objectivity and Subjective Accuracy: Between Effects and Norms

Chapter 4: The Young Reporter Programme: A Digital Intelligence Perspective

Part II

Chapter 5: 360-Degree Journalism: Ethics and Challenges of Immersive Storytelling in Africa

Chapter 6: Emotional Engagement and Information Recall in Immersive Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

Chapter 7: “Above all, it was fun”: Interactive Documentaries as Immersive Journalism

Chapter 8: Combating and Co-opting Immersion: Lessons from Audio-Visual Entertainment

Part III

Chapter 9: Immersive Environments, Evolving Ethics: How Computational, Data and Immersive Journalists Can Learn from Each Other

Chapter 10: Ethics of Care: Considerations in Collecting Audience Data for Immersive Journalism

Chapter 11: Information Processing of Augmented Reality News about History: Mediation Role of Transportation and Flow Experience between Telepresence and Attitudes Toward Civil Rights

Chapter 12: Biometric Immersive Journalism: Understanding a New Technological Frontier

Immersive Journalism is a must-read for the serious scholar, student or practitioner of virtual reality and the rapidly transforming 21st century news industry. The book’s twelve chapters provide a comprehensive, research-based examination of the key issues and opportunities that immersive technologies present to contemporary journalism. Notably, the contributors bring a wide variety of perspectives from across the globe and interrogate immersive journalism with an array of theoretical foundations and conceptual frameworks. This important new book provides a substantial contribution to the scholarship on virtual reality and the shifting nature, processes and impact of news media around the world.


— John V. Pavlik, Rutgers University


This volume defines immersive journalism as a broad and open concept. Overcoming the hype of virtual reality, the book offers a clear-eyed description of the field’s challenges as well as its potential for reshaping news production. Diverse in methods, the collection features empirical chapters and theoretical discussions, approaching immersive journalism from the point of view of journalistic practices, platform affordances, and ethical considerations, always with an eye on audiences. Tomás Dodds has successfully gathered multiple perspectives that take a step forward in the research on immersive journalism.


— Jorge Vázquez Herrero, University of Santiago de Compostela


Immersive Journalism

Virtual Reality and the Future of the News Industry

Cover Image
Hardback
Summary
Summary
  • This volume explores the rise of immersive technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 videos in the newsroom and how they affect newsmaking for journalists, news sources, and audiences. As these technologies offer journalists new and exciting opportunities to connect more deeply, emotionally, and presently with their audience, they also introduce unique ethical and practical questions concerning the collection and use of biometric, sensory, and metadata. Contributors analyze this shift from passive consumption to active engagement in order to investigate the positive and negative impacts that immersive technologies can have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection. Ultimately, this volume highlights both the potential for these technologies to redefine the relationship between news producers and consumers and the potential challenges their integration may pose. Scholars of journalism, communication, science & technology studies, and digital media will find this book particularly useful.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 254 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-66693-860-9 • Hardback • April 2024 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
    Series: Studies in New Media
    Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Author
Author
  • Tomás Dodds is assistant professor of journalism and new media at Leiden University and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part I

    Chapter 1: Immersive Journalism After the VR Hype from Media Professionals’ Perspective

    Chapter 2: Immersive Journalism Skills as Cultural Capital: Gaining Legitimacy in the Contemporary Newsroom

    Chapter 3: Immersive Journalism and Emerging News Values of Emotional Objectivity and Subjective Accuracy: Between Effects and Norms

    Chapter 4: The Young Reporter Programme: A Digital Intelligence Perspective

    Part II

    Chapter 5: 360-Degree Journalism: Ethics and Challenges of Immersive Storytelling in Africa

    Chapter 6: Emotional Engagement and Information Recall in Immersive Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

    Chapter 7: “Above all, it was fun”: Interactive Documentaries as Immersive Journalism

    Chapter 8: Combating and Co-opting Immersion: Lessons from Audio-Visual Entertainment

    Part III

    Chapter 9: Immersive Environments, Evolving Ethics: How Computational, Data and Immersive Journalists Can Learn from Each Other

    Chapter 10: Ethics of Care: Considerations in Collecting Audience Data for Immersive Journalism

    Chapter 11: Information Processing of Augmented Reality News about History: Mediation Role of Transportation and Flow Experience between Telepresence and Attitudes Toward Civil Rights

    Chapter 12: Biometric Immersive Journalism: Understanding a New Technological Frontier

Reviews
Reviews
  • Immersive Journalism is a must-read for the serious scholar, student or practitioner of virtual reality and the rapidly transforming 21st century news industry. The book’s twelve chapters provide a comprehensive, research-based examination of the key issues and opportunities that immersive technologies present to contemporary journalism. Notably, the contributors bring a wide variety of perspectives from across the globe and interrogate immersive journalism with an array of theoretical foundations and conceptual frameworks. This important new book provides a substantial contribution to the scholarship on virtual reality and the shifting nature, processes and impact of news media around the world.


    — John V. Pavlik, Rutgers University


    This volume defines immersive journalism as a broad and open concept. Overcoming the hype of virtual reality, the book offers a clear-eyed description of the field’s challenges as well as its potential for reshaping news production. Diverse in methods, the collection features empirical chapters and theoretical discussions, approaching immersive journalism from the point of view of journalistic practices, platform affordances, and ethical considerations, always with an eye on audiences. Tomás Dodds has successfully gathered multiple perspectives that take a step forward in the research on immersive journalism.


    — Jorge Vázquez Herrero, University of Santiago de Compostela


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