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Drones, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Journalism: Mapping Their Role in Immersive News Content
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Abstract Drones are shaping journalism in a variety of ways including in the production of immersive news content. This article identifies, describes and analyzes, or maps out, four areas in which drones are impacting immersive news content. These include: 1) enabling the possibility of providing aerial pers... view more
Drones are shaping journalism in a variety of ways including in the production of immersive news content. This article identifies, describes and analyzes, or maps out, four areas in which drones are impacting immersive news content. These include: 1) enabling the possibility of providing aerial perspective for first-person perspective flight-based immersive journalism experiences; 2) providing geo-tagged audio and video for flight-based immersive news content; 3) providing the capacity for both volumetric and 360 video capture; and 4) generating novel content types or content based on data acquired from a broad range of sensors beyond the standard visible light captured via video cameras; these may be a central generator of unique experiential media content beyond visual flight-based news content.... view less
Keywords
virtual reality; aircraft; journalism; news; media technology; audiovisual media; new technology
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Media Economics, Media Technology
Free Keywords
augmented reality; drones; photogrammetry; volumetric
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 137-146
Journal
Media and Communication, 8 (2020) 3
Issue topic
Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed