The document discusses virtual reality standards and is authored by the Associated Press. It contains multiple citations to the Associated Press and a quote from Jake Silverstein of the New York Times Magazine about how VR filmmaking often requires more coordination between the filmmaker and subject than traditional video journalism. The document also provides contact information for the standards editor at the Associated Press.
This document discusses the challenges of adapting virtual reality storytelling and journalism to a frameless first approach, including weaving narrative and context into first person accounts and primary sources. It highlights using a frameless first approach, incorporating narrative through different scenes, and utilizing firsthand perspectives and raw materials. The document concludes by thanking partners for collaborating to learn and advance this new format.
This document discusses immersive journalism using virtual reality. It covers key concepts like presence and empathy in VR storytelling. Early projects from 2012 showed the emotional impact of presence in VR. Examples of impactful news stories and documentaries using 360 video and volumetric VR are provided from 2014 to 2016. Critical issues like the differences between 360 video and volumetric capture, evolving hardware, and ethics are discussed. Ideal uses for volumetric VR mentioned are locations that can't be filmed, spatial stories, and interactive or recreated historical scenarios.
This document discusses the line between journalism and advocacy in several cases. It references a photo of drowned Syrian boy Alan Kurdi that brought attention to the refugee crisis, Jorge Ramos being removed from a Donald Trump press conference, and a popular John Oliver segment criticizing a Trump policy that received millions of views. It also mentions an interview with Vice President Biden and developing a distributed content strategy.
This document discusses mediating online news commenting to promote social inclusion. It references a definition of digital inclusion as effective and sustainable engagement with information technologies that allows full participation in society. The document poses questions about what type of access people have to commenting, where interaction occurs, the scale and scope of participation across sites, who is commenting, and the gender breakdown of top commenters on different types of news sites. It examines issues of social inclusion, political participation, media diversity, cultural citizenship, and media economics in online news commenting.
The document discusses how online news archives and streaming video technologies can transport viewers back and forth in time. It provides examples of CBS News streaming its live 1963 coverage of JFK's assassination and the British Pathé archive making its 85,000 historical videos available on YouTube. These archives allow audiences not present for the original news events to experience them through a sense of presence and transportation. The use of digital technologies to preserve and share archived news content across time is analyzed.
This study examined the influence of mobile application use and interpersonal discussions on political participation. It tested hypotheses based on the Differential Gains Model and Communication Mediation Model. The results showed that online political participation is positively related to the interaction between mobile application use and online discussions. It also found that online and face-to-face discussions mediate the relationship between mobile application use and both online and offline political participation. The study concludes that mobile applications have the potential to complement face-to-face discussions and mobilize individuals for online political activities.
This study analyzed the presidential campaign coverage from 2000 to 2012 on the websites of major U.S. newspapers. It found that while newspapers incorporated new technologies each election, editors focused on providing political information in traditional ways. Editors saw their role as guardians of democracy by reliably informing citizens. Over time, editors embraced innovations but remained dedicated to in-depth, timely reporting rather than user contributions. The study concluded that journalists were eager to adopt new practices for traffic but less willing to share responsibility for the democratic process with users.
This document summarizes the crowdfunding campaign of the Spanish news organization El Español. It details how the organization raised over $3.1 million from 5,500 people between January and March 2015, setting a world record for journalism. The document outlines El Español's social media strategy and how they used platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to engage supporters and recruit new backers during their campaign.
This document discusses the challenges of adapting virtual reality storytelling and journalism to a frameless first approach, including weaving narrative and context into first person accounts and primary sources. It highlights using a frameless first approach, incorporating narrative through different scenes, and utilizing firsthand perspectives and raw materials. The document concludes by thanking partners for collaborating to learn and advance this new format.
This document discusses immersive journalism using virtual reality. It covers key concepts like presence and empathy in VR storytelling. Early projects from 2012 showed the emotional impact of presence in VR. Examples of impactful news stories and documentaries using 360 video and volumetric VR are provided from 2014 to 2016. Critical issues like the differences between 360 video and volumetric capture, evolving hardware, and ethics are discussed. Ideal uses for volumetric VR mentioned are locations that can't be filmed, spatial stories, and interactive or recreated historical scenarios.
This document discusses the line between journalism and advocacy in several cases. It references a photo of drowned Syrian boy Alan Kurdi that brought attention to the refugee crisis, Jorge Ramos being removed from a Donald Trump press conference, and a popular John Oliver segment criticizing a Trump policy that received millions of views. It also mentions an interview with Vice President Biden and developing a distributed content strategy.
This document discusses mediating online news commenting to promote social inclusion. It references a definition of digital inclusion as effective and sustainable engagement with information technologies that allows full participation in society. The document poses questions about what type of access people have to commenting, where interaction occurs, the scale and scope of participation across sites, who is commenting, and the gender breakdown of top commenters on different types of news sites. It examines issues of social inclusion, political participation, media diversity, cultural citizenship, and media economics in online news commenting.
The document discusses how online news archives and streaming video technologies can transport viewers back and forth in time. It provides examples of CBS News streaming its live 1963 coverage of JFK's assassination and the British Pathé archive making its 85,000 historical videos available on YouTube. These archives allow audiences not present for the original news events to experience them through a sense of presence and transportation. The use of digital technologies to preserve and share archived news content across time is analyzed.
This study examined the influence of mobile application use and interpersonal discussions on political participation. It tested hypotheses based on the Differential Gains Model and Communication Mediation Model. The results showed that online political participation is positively related to the interaction between mobile application use and online discussions. It also found that online and face-to-face discussions mediate the relationship between mobile application use and both online and offline political participation. The study concludes that mobile applications have the potential to complement face-to-face discussions and mobilize individuals for online political activities.
This study analyzed the presidential campaign coverage from 2000 to 2012 on the websites of major U.S. newspapers. It found that while newspapers incorporated new technologies each election, editors focused on providing political information in traditional ways. Editors saw their role as guardians of democracy by reliably informing citizens. Over time, editors embraced innovations but remained dedicated to in-depth, timely reporting rather than user contributions. The study concluded that journalists were eager to adopt new practices for traffic but less willing to share responsibility for the democratic process with users.
This document summarizes the crowdfunding campaign of the Spanish news organization El Español. It details how the organization raised over $3.1 million from 5,500 people between January and March 2015, setting a world record for journalism. The document outlines El Español's social media strategy and how they used platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to engage supporters and recruit new backers during their campaign.
The document discusses reformatting a business model for a nonprofit news organization that is five years old and covers state politics. It focuses on maintaining revenue diversity through various sources such as corporate sponsors, foundations, individual donors, consumer payments, and other sources. Revenue diversity is important because it protects the organization from market forces, allows it to focus on innovation rather than specific revenue sources, and prevents undue influence from any single funder. The organization has successfully diversified its revenue streams over five years.
- Malaysiakini has built a strong base of loyal supporters over the years by being one of the only independent news outlets in Malaysia not owned by the ruling party, filling the demand for objective reporting. This creates a sense of community with readers who share the site's ideals and have defended it against authorities.
- The most popular section, "Yoursay", publishes readers' comments daily, making Malaysiakini not just a news site but a platform for citizens' voices.
- Moving forward, Malaysiakini aims to strengthen bonds with readers by hosting events at their new premises, engaging readers both online and offline, and upgrading services and products.
Mobile technology is reshaping how news is delivered by making journalism more personalized and relevant to each user. Traditional broad media experiences are becoming less effective as consumers expect news on their mobile devices. To succeed, news organizations must change their workflows to focus on the consumer, harness the ubiquity of mobile, use consumer data to tailor news and utility to each individual, and ensure their content is hyper-relevant or risk becoming irrelevant.
Our most popular story received over 6 million visits and detailed the winners of the 2014 Pulitzer Prizes. The story provided a concise recap of the Pulitzer winners across categories such as breaking news reporting, feature writing, and public service journalism.
This document discusses the importance of fast loading times, especially on mobile, where users typically have less patience. It notes that page load times above one second can interrupt the user experience, and that on mobile a site really only has 400 milliseconds to provide something to the user before they may leave the site. It also provides examples of load times for Vox Media's sites, both initial loads and repeat loads, and discusses some of the steps Vox has taken to improve performance, such as establishing a dedicated performance team and making speed a company-wide metric.
In the United States, newspapers provide over 50% of reporting on local governments. If newspapers go away, this important oversight of democracy will be lost. Expanding digital subscriptions and advertising is not sufficient to replace declining print revenues and support needed newsroom staffing levels. New approaches are needed to sustain innovative news reporting and diversify revenue sources to continue serving communities.
In September 2014, Alex MacCallum formed an Audience Development team at The Times to ensure their journalism was reaching readers and bringing readers back repeatedly. In October 2014, the Brown sisters joined the effort. Their strategy focused on commanding attention on social media, connecting with readers, and using compelling examples to show and tell readers about new articles through repetition, while also learning from successes and failures. When implemented altogether, this approach helped make The Times' pages the most visited in 2014 and number one for social referrals.
This document discusses a project to create a virtual reality (VR) documentary about the spread of Ebola in West Africa. The goals were to investigate the process of making this type of journalism in VR, understand its potential for non-fiction storytelling, and produce a work that provides new understanding. Key moments documented include the tree where Ebola likely jumped to humans, a village where it spread, and a field hospital. Findings showed VR can have a powerful immersive effect but requires shooting and production specifically for the format. Interactivity and menu framing were also found important. Production requires large teams and budgets while post-production is still cumbersome.
Data journalism can be defined as a process that uses data analysis and visualization techniques to tell stories and engage the public. It draws on skills from fields like statistics, programming, and investigative reporting. While analyzing data is not entirely new to journalism, data journalism utilizes new digital tools that allow journalists to more easily work with large datasets and present information interactively.
The document discusses criteria for selecting comments for the "NYT Picks" section of the New York Times website. It examines literature on positive criteria for inclusion such as thoughtfulness, brevity, relevance, and diversity. It poses research questions on whether NYT Picks comments reflect these criteria and whether algorithms could be developed to assess criteria and augment human moderation. While automation may scale moderation and improve the user experience, it also raises issues regarding over-generalization and need for transparency.
This document summarizes a study on organizational gatekeeping practices in online news. It discusses how news organizations develop different socialization philosophies and practices for engaging audiences based on their available resources and structures. The study found that news has fragmented partly due to these organizational divergences. Differences in organizational practices provide variety in how news organizations present and distribute news.
The Verge aims to attract a more diverse audience, especially younger readers and more women. Currently, most readers are men aged 25-34. The Verge posts content to 10 social media platforms to reach audiences where they spend time. They produce multiple versions and formats of stories for each platform, such as short videos for Facebook and Snapchat. While social media drives some traffic, the Verge maintains overall traffic through search engine optimization and investing in new platforms before they contribute directly to site traffic. Their goal is building their audience wherever people interact with their content.
The document discusses projections for increasing diversity in the US population from 1970 to 2030. It notes that non-Hispanic white populations will decline as minorities increase, with Hispanic populations projected to become the largest ethnic group in the country by 2030. Public K-12 schools will also become more diverse, with minorities projected to outnumber non-Hispanic whites nationally by 2020. The document aims to outline these demographic trends to media companies to help them understand changes in their audience demographics over time.
This document discusses the potential for virtual reality (VR) and journalism. It provides definitions for VR and augmented reality (AR), noting how VR aims to fully immerse users in simulated environments while AR supplements the real world. Examples are given of early VR journalism projects. The document suggests journalists should care about these technologies now as they may disrupt media in the future. It introduces Robert Hernandez, who discusses his work exploring VR journalism at USC.
This document outlines Quartz's approach to native advertising for executives. It discusses the promise of native ads, shares findings from Quartz's Global Executives Study on content consumption behaviors, and establishes 7 guiding principles for creating high-quality, relevant native ads including producing quality content, being mobile and socially optimized, respecting audience habits, iterating based on feedback, and being transparent about sponsored content.
This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information from the document:
A mini-documentary discusses a project about a crime scene at a jewelry store from February 1999. The project website is virtualworld.jjie.org, which allows users to explore the JJIE virtual world and create an avatar. A story from Christopher is featured, as Gwenette Writer Sinclair takes users into the virtual world.
This document discusses how media trends are changing media businesses. It notes that screens and mobile devices are now the dominant ways people access and share media content. Established media platforms are being replaced by internet-based connections. The ability of media firms to profitably connect audiences with content is diminishing as supply of media content exceeds consumption. Media firms now operate in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments where industry boundaries are blurred and competitive advantages change rapidly. Traditional strategic planning methods are less useful, and media companies must focus on continual innovation, learning and adaptation. The value creation of media firms also needs to change from traditional product-based models to more customer-centric service models. Stabilizing consumption and revenues are now the primary strategic
This document shows monthly user numbers for the website atlatszo.hu from March 2015 to January 2016, which increased from 192,122 to 648,011 users over that period. It also lists income received in 2014 from various sources like video/podcasts, social media, and microdonations, totaling HUF 50.3 million. The money was spent on joint projects of atlatszo.hu and the Asimov Foundation.
This document provides information about the Ujyaalo radio program in Nepal, including its target audiences, coverage area, components, and tools for audience engagement.
The primary target audience of Ujyaalo is teachers, civil servants, local political cadres, social activists, and local decision makers aged 18-35. The secondary audience includes farmers, workers, small business owners, and migrant workers abroad aged 36-55.
Ujyaalo has a broadcast coverage of over 175 FM partner stations across Nepal's seven provinces. The radio program components include news, reports, interviews, vox pops, experiences of migrants and returnees, and questions/answers. It uses tools like a toll-free number, SMS,
Recent years have seen a disturbing rise in violence, discrimination, and intolerance against Christian communities in various Islamic countries. This multifaceted challenge, deeply rooted in historical, social, and political animosities, demands urgent attention. Despite the escalating persecution, substantial support from the Western world remains lacking.
ग्रेटर मुंबई के नगर आयुक्त को एक खुले पत्र में याचिका दायर कर 540 से अधिक मुंबईकरों ने सभी अवैध और अस्थिर होर्डिंग्स, साइनबोर्ड और इलेक्ट्रिक साइनेज को तत्काल हटाने और 13 मई, 2024 की शाम को घाटकोपर में अवैध होर्डिंग के गिरने की विनाशकारी घटना के बाद अपराधियों के खिलाफ सख्त कार्रवाई की मांग की है, जिसमें 17 लोगों की जान चली गई और कई निर्दोष लोग गंभीर रूप से घायल हो गए।
The document discusses reformatting a business model for a nonprofit news organization that is five years old and covers state politics. It focuses on maintaining revenue diversity through various sources such as corporate sponsors, foundations, individual donors, consumer payments, and other sources. Revenue diversity is important because it protects the organization from market forces, allows it to focus on innovation rather than specific revenue sources, and prevents undue influence from any single funder. The organization has successfully diversified its revenue streams over five years.
- Malaysiakini has built a strong base of loyal supporters over the years by being one of the only independent news outlets in Malaysia not owned by the ruling party, filling the demand for objective reporting. This creates a sense of community with readers who share the site's ideals and have defended it against authorities.
- The most popular section, "Yoursay", publishes readers' comments daily, making Malaysiakini not just a news site but a platform for citizens' voices.
- Moving forward, Malaysiakini aims to strengthen bonds with readers by hosting events at their new premises, engaging readers both online and offline, and upgrading services and products.
Mobile technology is reshaping how news is delivered by making journalism more personalized and relevant to each user. Traditional broad media experiences are becoming less effective as consumers expect news on their mobile devices. To succeed, news organizations must change their workflows to focus on the consumer, harness the ubiquity of mobile, use consumer data to tailor news and utility to each individual, and ensure their content is hyper-relevant or risk becoming irrelevant.
Our most popular story received over 6 million visits and detailed the winners of the 2014 Pulitzer Prizes. The story provided a concise recap of the Pulitzer winners across categories such as breaking news reporting, feature writing, and public service journalism.
This document discusses the importance of fast loading times, especially on mobile, where users typically have less patience. It notes that page load times above one second can interrupt the user experience, and that on mobile a site really only has 400 milliseconds to provide something to the user before they may leave the site. It also provides examples of load times for Vox Media's sites, both initial loads and repeat loads, and discusses some of the steps Vox has taken to improve performance, such as establishing a dedicated performance team and making speed a company-wide metric.
In the United States, newspapers provide over 50% of reporting on local governments. If newspapers go away, this important oversight of democracy will be lost. Expanding digital subscriptions and advertising is not sufficient to replace declining print revenues and support needed newsroom staffing levels. New approaches are needed to sustain innovative news reporting and diversify revenue sources to continue serving communities.
In September 2014, Alex MacCallum formed an Audience Development team at The Times to ensure their journalism was reaching readers and bringing readers back repeatedly. In October 2014, the Brown sisters joined the effort. Their strategy focused on commanding attention on social media, connecting with readers, and using compelling examples to show and tell readers about new articles through repetition, while also learning from successes and failures. When implemented altogether, this approach helped make The Times' pages the most visited in 2014 and number one for social referrals.
This document discusses a project to create a virtual reality (VR) documentary about the spread of Ebola in West Africa. The goals were to investigate the process of making this type of journalism in VR, understand its potential for non-fiction storytelling, and produce a work that provides new understanding. Key moments documented include the tree where Ebola likely jumped to humans, a village where it spread, and a field hospital. Findings showed VR can have a powerful immersive effect but requires shooting and production specifically for the format. Interactivity and menu framing were also found important. Production requires large teams and budgets while post-production is still cumbersome.
Data journalism can be defined as a process that uses data analysis and visualization techniques to tell stories and engage the public. It draws on skills from fields like statistics, programming, and investigative reporting. While analyzing data is not entirely new to journalism, data journalism utilizes new digital tools that allow journalists to more easily work with large datasets and present information interactively.
The document discusses criteria for selecting comments for the "NYT Picks" section of the New York Times website. It examines literature on positive criteria for inclusion such as thoughtfulness, brevity, relevance, and diversity. It poses research questions on whether NYT Picks comments reflect these criteria and whether algorithms could be developed to assess criteria and augment human moderation. While automation may scale moderation and improve the user experience, it also raises issues regarding over-generalization and need for transparency.
This document summarizes a study on organizational gatekeeping practices in online news. It discusses how news organizations develop different socialization philosophies and practices for engaging audiences based on their available resources and structures. The study found that news has fragmented partly due to these organizational divergences. Differences in organizational practices provide variety in how news organizations present and distribute news.
The Verge aims to attract a more diverse audience, especially younger readers and more women. Currently, most readers are men aged 25-34. The Verge posts content to 10 social media platforms to reach audiences where they spend time. They produce multiple versions and formats of stories for each platform, such as short videos for Facebook and Snapchat. While social media drives some traffic, the Verge maintains overall traffic through search engine optimization and investing in new platforms before they contribute directly to site traffic. Their goal is building their audience wherever people interact with their content.
The document discusses projections for increasing diversity in the US population from 1970 to 2030. It notes that non-Hispanic white populations will decline as minorities increase, with Hispanic populations projected to become the largest ethnic group in the country by 2030. Public K-12 schools will also become more diverse, with minorities projected to outnumber non-Hispanic whites nationally by 2020. The document aims to outline these demographic trends to media companies to help them understand changes in their audience demographics over time.
This document discusses the potential for virtual reality (VR) and journalism. It provides definitions for VR and augmented reality (AR), noting how VR aims to fully immerse users in simulated environments while AR supplements the real world. Examples are given of early VR journalism projects. The document suggests journalists should care about these technologies now as they may disrupt media in the future. It introduces Robert Hernandez, who discusses his work exploring VR journalism at USC.
This document outlines Quartz's approach to native advertising for executives. It discusses the promise of native ads, shares findings from Quartz's Global Executives Study on content consumption behaviors, and establishes 7 guiding principles for creating high-quality, relevant native ads including producing quality content, being mobile and socially optimized, respecting audience habits, iterating based on feedback, and being transparent about sponsored content.
This 3 sentence summary provides the high level information from the document:
A mini-documentary discusses a project about a crime scene at a jewelry store from February 1999. The project website is virtualworld.jjie.org, which allows users to explore the JJIE virtual world and create an avatar. A story from Christopher is featured, as Gwenette Writer Sinclair takes users into the virtual world.
This document discusses how media trends are changing media businesses. It notes that screens and mobile devices are now the dominant ways people access and share media content. Established media platforms are being replaced by internet-based connections. The ability of media firms to profitably connect audiences with content is diminishing as supply of media content exceeds consumption. Media firms now operate in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments where industry boundaries are blurred and competitive advantages change rapidly. Traditional strategic planning methods are less useful, and media companies must focus on continual innovation, learning and adaptation. The value creation of media firms also needs to change from traditional product-based models to more customer-centric service models. Stabilizing consumption and revenues are now the primary strategic
This document shows monthly user numbers for the website atlatszo.hu from March 2015 to January 2016, which increased from 192,122 to 648,011 users over that period. It also lists income received in 2014 from various sources like video/podcasts, social media, and microdonations, totaling HUF 50.3 million. The money was spent on joint projects of atlatszo.hu and the Asimov Foundation.
This document provides information about the Ujyaalo radio program in Nepal, including its target audiences, coverage area, components, and tools for audience engagement.
The primary target audience of Ujyaalo is teachers, civil servants, local political cadres, social activists, and local decision makers aged 18-35. The secondary audience includes farmers, workers, small business owners, and migrant workers abroad aged 36-55.
Ujyaalo has a broadcast coverage of over 175 FM partner stations across Nepal's seven provinces. The radio program components include news, reports, interviews, vox pops, experiences of migrants and returnees, and questions/answers. It uses tools like a toll-free number, SMS,
Recent years have seen a disturbing rise in violence, discrimination, and intolerance against Christian communities in various Islamic countries. This multifaceted challenge, deeply rooted in historical, social, and political animosities, demands urgent attention. Despite the escalating persecution, substantial support from the Western world remains lacking.
ग्रेटर मुंबई के नगर आयुक्त को एक खुले पत्र में याचिका दायर कर 540 से अधिक मुंबईकरों ने सभी अवैध और अस्थिर होर्डिंग्स, साइनबोर्ड और इलेक्ट्रिक साइनेज को तत्काल हटाने और 13 मई, 2024 की शाम को घाटकोपर में अवैध होर्डिंग के गिरने की विनाशकारी घटना के बाद अपराधियों के खिलाफ सख्त कार्रवाई की मांग की है, जिसमें 17 लोगों की जान चली गई और कई निर्दोष लोग गंभीर रूप से घायल हो गए।
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Christian persecution in Islamic countries has intensified, with alarming incidents of violence, discrimination, and intolerance. This article highlights recent attacks in Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq, exposing the multifaceted challenges faced by Christian communities. Despite the severity of these atrocities, the Western world's response remains muted due to political, economic, and social considerations. The urgent need for international intervention is underscored, emphasizing that without substantial support, the future of Christianity in these regions is at grave risk.
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23. “V.R. usually involves more coordination between
filmmaker and subject than in traditional video
journalism. … a subject may be asked to repeat an
action, or wait until the filmmaker is out of sight to
complete a task.”
– Jake Silverstein, editor, New York Times Magazine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The first years of VR in journalism have been largely experimental. We were trying to see what the technology could do. Every project pretty much made up its own rules as far as standards were concerned. And understandably: It’s hard to come up with a whole ethical construct when you’re busy enough just trying to get the headset to work and stitch the imagery together.
But now, baby’s grown up. Not completely – there are lots of VR innovations still to come. But headsets have become routine, affordable purchases. Consumers are getting a steady stream of VR productions based on the news. In the next year or two, millions of people will be forming lifetime beliefs about what VR news is. So it’s time for a conversation on VR standards.
With still images, people understand that a photo can be the event itself ...
Or an artist’s impression of the event ...
... or a commentary.
But those three things can blend together in a VR presentation. Producers do start with reality ... But there’s a great temptation to take some artistic license. And the sheer immersive power of VR can pull you so far into the scene that you can’t help but emerge with a strong political or social opinion– probably the one the producer intended.
One of the biggest VR producers, RYOT, makes a point of doing news coverage that leads viewers to take action. RYOT says it shows you “what's going on in the world AND what you can do about it.”
So that’s the first standards question: will there be a space and a market for objectivity in VR news? Or will VR news productions evolve principally into tools of persuasion, to get people to donate money, sign petitions or join a cause? If so, people will come to expect not just news, but activism, when they put on a VR headset.
A second standards question is how real VR imagery should be. Here’s a presentation by The Associated Press, showing a super-luxury hotel suite. This is 100 percent real; everything is photographed precisely, from every angle. You can walk around objects and see them as they really are, from any side.
Compare that these other projects.
This project by the Economist is designed to re-create a museum in Mosul, Iraq, that was destroyed by the Islamic State group. Producers digitally rebuilt the museum ...
... room by room in virtual reality ...
... and filled it with the original art objects. Which they re-created in 3D from photos taken over the years by tourists. A fantastic use of VR to restore what Islamic State wiped out. But … the photos were taken by different tourists, from different angles, in two dimensions. While the 3D objects look authentic, the VR creators acknowledge they’re not close enough to the originals to be scientifically useful.
Here’s a VR scene by Nonny de la Pena’s Emblematic Group, of an explosion in Syria. It was created quite accurately, from real video. But as technology evolves, there’ll be an increasing temptation to “complete,” so to speak, these kinds of scenes, so viewers with headsets can walk around within the presentation. That means filling in what the 2-D video camera didn’t capture, like the other side of the motorcycle. Or the expression on the face, of the man running at the left. So if we’re talking about objects in a museum that aren’t complete accurate … or guesswork about the other sides of objects, do we need disclosures, and what kind? Some kind of statement that appears on a slide before the piece starts?
Or maybe something other than text. Here’s an Emblematic piece recounting a domestic violence tragedy that ended in a murder-suicide. The producers extensively interviewed witnesses as to who was standing where, even what clothes they were wearing. But what about the facial expressions? That’s hard to know.
Uncertainty in this situation might be conveyed by obscuring the exact expressions, to make clear we don’t know what they are.
Then there’s the question of how an event happened. How do you re-create it if different witnesses saw different things? Dan Archer created this VR, re-telling of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, from the points of view of several different witnesses. Guided by the map at the upper right, the viewer can move from witnesses to witness to get different accounts of what happened. VR adds power to each of the accounts. But the final decision on what to believe is up the viewer.
Another standards question. Should VR producers show the viewer everything the camera captures? Here are the bodies of migrant children three months ago on a beach in Turkey. Still and video photographers can select their angles, so if they want to avoid the children’s faces, they can. But a VR camera sees everything around it. Traditional journalistic standards say you should never manipulate the content of a photo. Should those standards apply to VR as well?
We ran into this question a lot less tragically in AP’s re-creation of that luxury hotel suite. The suite’s bathroom had so many mirrors that we couldn’t help the VR camera becoming part of the image. Someone might argue for electronically removing it; after all, hotel bathrooms don’t usually have VR cameras in them. But image integrity is sacred at AP, so the camera stayed.
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Some might also have a strong emotional reaction to this look, by the Guardian, at a solitary confinement cell in an American prison. Turn around and you see exactly what the prisoner does – a drab cell, with no distractions, where prisoners may be kept alone for days or weeks.
The science of how VR affects our brains is still young. The more we learn, the more we’ll have to tailor our warnings. We may not feel comfortable showing some things at all.
Then there’s the question of mobility. A lot of virtual reality is set up so you stand in one place, and look 360 degrees around you. As in this New York Times production on the suffering of refugee children.
You can see everything as you turn around this bombed-out classroom in Ukraine.
But you’re still rooted to the spot the producer chose to begin with. If the VR technique lets you walk through a scene, you’re still in a walled world selected by the producer; you can only make those turns the production allows. Should the producer provide some context about whether the situation was different a few blocks, or a few miles, away?
And then … some news companies say the complexities of VR force them to stage events – something they may have never done before. Here’s a comment on that from an editor of the New York Times:
Again, it raises the question of what VR is: Actual events? Or their re-creation, maybe with a little variation from the original.
All of this is not to criticize the constant experimentation in VR journalism today. There are lots of brands of journalism, and that’s fine when producers are transparent. But we can only gain from making sure the conversation about VR ethics develops as quickly as VR itself
It’s the only way to make sure that VR news comes of age as a responsible and credible form of journalism.