Immersive Journalism as Storytelling

Ethics, Production, and Design
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-71329-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uskali, Turo

Gynnild, Astrid

Jones, Sarah

Sirkkunen, Esa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Turo Uskali is an Associate Professor and Head of the Journalism program at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research and teaching focus on the interplay of innovations and journalism, and the future of media industries.

Astrid Gynnild is a Professor and Head of the Journalism Research Group at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Principal Investigator of the ViSmedia project. Her current research and teaching focus is on visual journalism, new technologies, and innovation foresight.

Sarah Jones is Deputy Dean at De Montfort University, UK. Sarah is listed in the top 15 global influencers in VR, is a Google Jump Creator, and has advised the UK Government on immersive technology. Sarah has published extensively on immersive and emerging media.

Esa Sirkkunen works as a senior researcher at Research Centre COMET at the Tampere University, Finland. His research focuses on assemblages of digital technologies and journalism, and on broader themes like social theory, privacy, and freedom of speech.