Immersive Journalism in VR: Four Theoretical Domains for Researching a Narrative Design Framework

Autor: Gary Hardee
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783319399065
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39907-2_65
Popis: A major focus of research in Virtual Reality (VR) media examines the technological affordances for creating immersion, which in turn can generate presence – the feeling of being there – in a virtual environment. This research has given rise to an emerging form of fact-based storytelling called immersive journalism, a term used to describe digitally produced stories designed to provide a first-person, interactive experience with news events. This paper examines the concept of immersive journalism and discusses both its potential and its limitations as a narrative and journalistic genre. Immersive journalism will require a new narrative design framework, and four theoretical domains are discussed as underscoring this framework. The four are VR presence, narrative, cognition and journalistic ethics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE