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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.

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

Product details

Published Apr 17 2024
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 254
ISBN 9798216338901
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 8 BW Illustrations, 7 Tables
Series Studies in New Media
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Tomás Dodds

Contributor

Samuel Akpe

Contributor

Kaixin Cheng

Contributor

Tomás Dodds

Contributor

Andrea Hudson

Contributor

Seok Kang

Contributor

Zixuan Li

Contributor

Ivanka Pjesivac

Contributor

Alan Shipman

Contributor

Marc Verboord

Contributor

Ann Vogel

Contributor

Moritz Wever

Contributor

Shangyuan Wu

Contributor

Wang Ngai Yeung

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