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4. Immersive Journalism and Virtual Reality

Authors : Joan Soler-Adillon, Carles Sora

Published in: Interaction in Digital News Media

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Immersive journalism is a practice that places the audience at the center of the journalistic narrative, creating first-person experiences by using Virtual Reality technologies and 360 degree video. This chapter reviews some of the current key ideas in understanding its importance and implications. Storytelling, empathy, the virtual/real duality, and interactivity are discussed along with several key works of the current new wave of immersive technologies. The text looks at both how immersive journalism connects to and how it innovates from the first VR experiences dated from over 20 years ago, in a moment when immersive technologies afford a context for these new storytelling practices to be consolidated.

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Title: Immersive Journalism and Virtual Reality
Authors: Joan Soler-Adillon
Carles Sora
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Interaction in Digital News Media
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96252-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96253-5

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96253-5_4