Immersive Journalism as Storytelling: Ethics, Production, and Design

This book explores the future of 360-degree video, virtual reality, and augmented reality in journalism, discussing their potential to reach new audiences, change storytelling, and provide more interactivity. It also addresses challenges such as journalism ethics, truthfulness, transparency, privacy, manipulation, and surveillance. Chapters are grounded in empirical data and case studies, making it valuable for journalism teachers, educators, students, scholars, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens interested in emerging technologies for media practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 202 pages
Publication date: 13 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into groundbreaking new research, exploring the future prospects of 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) in journalism. It offers a comprehensive analysis and discussion of virtual world experiments from various perspectives, featuring contributions from a diverse range of scholars. Immersive Journalism as Storytelling highlights the opportunities and challenges presented by this form of storytelling, emphasizing how it can reach new audiences, transform the way stories are told, and provide greater interactivity within the news industry.

In addition to generating deeper emotional reactions and offering global perspectives, the book demonstrates how immersive journalism can 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. Chapters are grounded in empirical data, such as content analyses and expert interviews, alongside insightful case studies that discuss notable examples such as Euronews, Nonny de la Peñas' Project Syria, and The New York Times' NYTVR application.

Written for journalism teachers, educators, students, scholars, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens with an interest in emerging technologies for media practice, this book provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of journalism and media. 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, allowing for widespread dissemination and reuse.

Weight: 342g
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367713300