Immersive Journalism - (Studies in New Media) by Tomás Dodds (Hardcover)

About the Book

This collection explores how immersive technologies affect newsmaking and the positive and negative impacts they may have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection.

Book Synopsis

This collection explores how immersive technologies affect newsmaking and the positive and negative impacts they may have on journalistic norms, professional ethics, audience engagement, and data protection.

Review Quotes

Immersive Journalism is a must-read for the serious scholar, student or practitioner of virtual reality and the rapidly transforming 21st century news industry. The book's twelve chapters provide a comprehensive, research-based examination of the key issues and opportunities that immersive technologies present to contemporary journalism. Notably, the contributors bring a wide variety of perspectives from across the globe and interrogate immersive journalism with an array of theoretical foundations and conceptual frameworks. This important new book provides a substantial contribution to the scholarship on virtual reality and the shifting nature, processes and impact of news media around the world.

This volume defines immersive journalism as a broad and open concept. Overcoming the hype of virtual reality, the book offers a clear-eyed description of the field's challenges as well as its potential for reshaping news production. Diverse in methods, the collection features empirical chapters and theoretical discussions, approaching immersive journalism from the point of view of journalistic practices, platform affordances, and ethical considerations, always with an eye on audiences. Tomás Dodds has successfully gathered multiple perspectives that take a step forward in the research on immersive journalism.

About the Author

Tomás Dodds is assistant professor of journalism and new media at Leiden University and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.