360° Video Journalism: Experimental Study on the Effect of Immersion on News Experience and Distant Suffering

Damme, Kristin Van; All, Anissa; Marez, Lieven De; Leuven, Sarah Van

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2018.1561208

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“…Regarding memory for story content, the results point to the latter: participants reported significantly lower levels of knowledge acquisition after reading a news text including a 360-degree photograph than after reading text alone. This finding indicates that the immersive image served as a distractor, seducing news consumers' attention away from the actual story (Van Damme et al, 2018), and depriving them of cognitive resources they would have needed to thoroughly attend, process, and store the information presented in the accompanying news article (Xu & Sundar, 2016). Since dragging around an omnidirectional image is considered a rather easy task, it is plausible that participants might had enough mental resources left for storing information (Boksem, Meijman, & Lorist, 2005), but simply lacked the motivation to carefully attend them.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Powered by Immersion? Examining Effects of 360-Degree Photography on Knowledge Acquisition and Perceived Message Credibility of Climate Change News

Greussing

2019

Environmental Communication

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Research on the effects of climate change imagery has mainly focused on traditional photographs or infographics, thereby neglecting other visual presentation forms increasingly used in today's digital landscape. Hence, this study investigates how an immersive 360-degree photograph affects individuals' knowledge acquisition and perceived message credibility when being embedded in text-based climate change coverage. To isolate the modality features driving potential effects, the 360-degree photograph is contrasted with two less immersive visualization forms (video and still photo). News readers' issue-specific prior knowledge, topic involvement, and level of environmental concern were considered as potential moderators. Results of an online survey experiment (N = 401) reveal detrimental effects for adding 360-degree technology to text-based news on knowledge acquisition and provide no evidence for effects on perceived message credibility. Moreover, the effects do not vary among levels of the three moderators under study. The implications of these limited effects for environmental communication are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Powered by Immersion? Examining Effects of 360-Degree Photography on Knowledge Acquisition and Perceived Message Credibility of Climate Change News

Greussing

2019

Environmental Communication

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“…Telepresence was defined as a psychological state of presence brought by media content such as movies or TV dramas (Kim and Biocca, 1997;Suh and Lee, 2005), which was enhanced by the immersive VR technology (Biocca, 1997;Rupp et al, 2016;Van Damme et al, 2019). Participants' perceived telepresence while watching the video stimuli was measured on a 7-point scale adopted from Kim and Biocca (1997), with 1 being "strongly disagree" and 7 being "strongly agree."…”

Section: Perceived Telepresencementioning

confidence: 99%

Do You Feel the Same as I Do? Differences in Virtual Reality Technology Experience and Acceptance Between Elderly Adults and College Students

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Virtual reality (VR) has been widely applied in medical health areas and the entertainment and tourism industries, in which elderly people are a primary target. However, most studies on VR have focused on how people respond to this new technology and its effects on younger generations. Our study explored the differences in VR experience and acceptance between elderly adults and college students. A mixed method approach including both experiments and in-depth interviews was applied in this study. Our results show that elderly adults reported a higher level of telepresence and stronger emotional responses than young adults in VR viewing regardless of the VR device. The ways in which elderly people processed and evaluated VR content and devices were different from those of young people. Elderly people reported more positive attitudes toward the video they watched than young people, but this did not necessarily lead to more positive attitudes toward the viewing experience.

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“…[6] Some empirical studies focus specifically on the relation between journalism and immersion, they analyze if VR helps as an information tool. However, most studies surrounding this matter end inconclusive, such as Jones (2017) [7] and Van Damme, All, De Marez and Van Leuven (2019) [8], but they still don't disregard the empathy factor of VR. The latter one targets the feeling of "distance suffering" with VR, something that strongly relates to what humanitarian communication hopes to generate.…”

Section: Vr: Empathy and Immersion Through Bodily Presencementioning

confidence: 99%

Humanitarian Documentary: A Comparison Study between VR and Non-VR Productions

Nunes¹,

Hyunseok²

2019

J Multimed Inf Syst

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Virtual Reality is broadly recognized as an "empathy machine". This reputation is due to the feeling of 'presence' that it provides to users, which is the sensation of being bodily present in a space, even when that space is virtual. The possibility of complete immersion attracts many creators looking to induce empathy and awareness about the most diverse subjects. One of the first types of VR non-fiction productions to be released was in the morally sensitive humanitarian documentary genre. This research aims to explore how VR productions differ from non-VR productions with a focus on humanitarian communication. Rather than targeting mechanical aspects of VR technology, this article compares the visual and narrative storytelling characteristics in VR and non-VR media. First, humanitarian communication and its nuances are explained. Then, 360º video filming characteristics are analyzed, followed by a comparison table contrasting VR and non-VR non-fiction. After evaluating VR non-fiction empirical studies, a discussion is initiated over the betterment of VR non-fiction storytelling in a way that could help it generate more empathy, since many productions seem to purely rely on the technology as a production novelty, and end up lacking emotional depth and audience engagement through story.

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360° Video Journalism: Experimental Study on the Effect of Immersion on News Experience and Distant Suffering

Cited by 97 publications

References 29 publications

Powered by Immersion? Examining Effects of 360-Degree Photography on Knowledge Acquisition and Perceived Message Credibility of Climate Change News

Powered by Immersion? Examining Effects of 360-Degree Photography on Knowledge Acquisition and Perceived Message Credibility of Climate Change News

Do You Feel the Same as I Do? Differences in Virtual Reality Technology Experience and Acceptance Between Elderly Adults and College Students

Humanitarian Documentary: A Comparison Study between VR and Non-VR Productions

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