How Digital Tech Changed Journalism
Digital media has changed the way people interact with news. "Modern twenty-first century media audiences have demonstrated quite clearly they are unwilling to be passive; they demand to be active participants in what they read, listen to, watch, comment on, and even pass along to others," (Kolodzy, 2013). Digital technologies allow audiences to be more interactive than ever.
Virtual reality technology is changing the way journalists reports news and they way audiences consume it. "Immersive journalism, which is the production of news in a form in which people can gain first-person experiences of the events or situation described in news stories...it allows the participant, typically represented as a digital avatar, to actually enter a virtually recreated scenario representing the news story," (Pena et al., 2010).
At the New York Times, they are experimenting with immersive journalism through the production of The Daily 360, 360 videos created by Times journalists that highlight areas around the globe and give users a first hand experience "in" those places.
This kind of journalism is innovative and requires innovative skills; teams of individuals with coding, design, video production, etc. were assembled for this one project. Modern journalists need modern skills, and while virtual reality may be relatively new, it is changing the face of journalism, and journalists must change with it.
References
Kolodzy, Janet. Practicing Convergence Journalism: An Introduction to Cross-Media Storytelling. Routledge, 2013.
Peña, Nonny De La, et al. “Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of News.” Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 19, no. 4, 2010, pp. 291–301., doi:10.1162/pres_a_00005.
This video is just one of the many New York Times Daily 360 videos that utilize VR technology to bring us the news, and the world, in ways that we never thought possible.
Virtual reality technology is changing the way journalists reports news and they way audiences consume it. "Immersive journalism, which is the production of news in a form in which people can gain first-person experiences of the events or situation described in news stories...it allows the participant, typically represented as a digital avatar, to actually enter a virtually recreated scenario representing the news story," (Pena et al., 2010).
At the New York Times, they are experimenting with immersive journalism through the production of The Daily 360, 360 videos created by Times journalists that highlight areas around the globe and give users a first hand experience "in" those places.
This kind of journalism is innovative and requires innovative skills; teams of individuals with coding, design, video production, etc. were assembled for this one project. Modern journalists need modern skills, and while virtual reality may be relatively new, it is changing the face of journalism, and journalists must change with it.
References
Kolodzy, Janet. Practicing Convergence Journalism: An Introduction to Cross-Media Storytelling. Routledge, 2013.
Peña, Nonny De La, et al. “Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of News.” Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 19, no. 4, 2010, pp. 291–301., doi:10.1162/pres_a_00005.
This video is just one of the many New York Times Daily 360 videos that utilize VR technology to bring us the news, and the world, in ways that we never thought possible.
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