Journalism in Second Life

Brennen, Bonnie; Cerna, Erika dela

doi:10.1080/14616701003638418

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“…While not truly immersive due to the third-person perspective, the desktop-based VR platform provided a virtual world for users from all over the world to navigate and interact via avatars. Second Life gave rise to three newspapers focused on the events of the virtual world: the Alpaville Herald, the Metaverse Messenger, and the Second Life Newspaper (Brennen and Dela Cerna, 2010). In addition to these virtual-world newspapers, Second Life facilitated the Metanomics (Metaverse and economics) weekly interview program hosted by Robert Bloomfield (Jensen, 2009).…”

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“…Second Life, "a computer-generated alternative reality" (Brennen and Dela Cerna, 2010), ushered the next major era of immersive journalism's evolution. While not truly immersive due to the third-person perspective, the desktop-based VR platform provided a virtual world for users from all over the world to navigate and interact via avatars.…”

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FIJI: A Framework for the Immersion-Journalism Intersection

Hardee

McMahan

2017

Front. ICT

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Section: Journalism In Second Lifementioning

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FIJI: A Framework for the Immersion-Journalism Intersection

Hardee

McMahan

2017

Front. ICT

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“…As for newsgames, however, Meier has argued: ‘Ethical doubts as to whether serious topics should be played in games are offset against the benefit of creating interest and empathy’ (p. 429). Said differently, newsgames perform important ‘boundary work’, in that the genre sets itself apart from established videogames and digital journalism formats, yet it garners debatable effects on news audiences (Brennen and Cerna, 2010).…”

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Endless mode: Exploring the procedural rhetoric of a Black Lives Matter-themed newsgame

Richardson

2020

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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A week after the back-to-back police shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling in early July 2016, a game developer, who goes by the screen name Yvvy, sat in front of her console mulling over the headlines. She designed a newsgame that featured civilian–police interactions that were plucked from that reportage. She entitled it Easy Level Life. The newsgame is fashioned in what developers call ‘endless mode’, where players are challenged to last as long as possible against a continuing threat, with limited resources or player-character lives. This case study explores the procedural rhetoric of Easy Level Life to investigate how it condemns police brutality through play. Using Teun van Dijk’s concept of ‘news as discourse’ as the framework, I found that this newsgame followed the narrative structure of a traditional newspaper editorial very closely. I explain how the situation–evaluation–conclusion discursive model best describes how Easy Level Life conveys its political ideologies. I conclude by suggesting that this discursive model should perhaps become a benchmarking tool for future newsgame developers who aim to strengthen their arguments for social justice.

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“…The new media platforms are diverse; they comprise the Internet, mobile phones, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, as well as online games such as Second Life (Brennen & Cerna, 2010). These new media platforms enter people's lives via non-journalistic content and establish an intimate presence; news content is then created by a process of constant interpersonal interaction and contributes to the ubiquity of news sources.…”

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Convergence of new and old media: new media representation in traditional news

Chao-Chen

2013

Chinese Journal of Communication

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This article addresses the role of digital technologies in redefining journalism. The research finds that the new media appear in the traditional news media mainly as a source of information rather than the originator of the news agenda or a platform for expressing public opinion. Data were gathered from the new media which were cited in the traditional media from 30 September to 30 December 2010. The analysis shows that the use of new media is driven by commercial considerations. Commercial concerns, rather than an attempt to improve the quality of news contents, largely determine how traditional media organizations use the new media sources.

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Journalism in Second Life

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

FIJI: A Framework for the Immersion-Journalism Intersection

FIJI: A Framework for the Immersion-Journalism Intersection

Endless mode: Exploring the procedural rhetoric of a Black Lives Matter-themed newsgame

Convergence of new and old media: new media representation in traditional news

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