Is emotive focus something new in journalism, and does it break with the traditional reporting of facts? ViSmedia researchers Deborah G. Johnson and Joakim Vindenes addressed important topics at the Global Fusion 2018 conference.
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Several participants from the ViSmedia project presented their latest work on immersive journalism in a panel session at the ECREA2018 conference in Switzerland.
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Watch the presentations and pictures from ViSmedia’s Immersive journalism seminar.
September 19 ViSmedia held the Immersive Journalism Seminar with presentations by journalism scholars from England, Finland, Norway and USA.
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The ViSmedia team was on the 16.-18 of September gathered on Solstrand for their annual fall seminar. This year, ViSmedia researchers and master students dived into the world of scenarios.
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Care robots for the elderly and sex robots for the lonely. Robots are becoming part of our world, and we need to figure out what to think of it, says ViSmedia researcher Deborah G. Johnson. In a new article in Ethics and Information Technology, she and her co-author Mario Veridicchio discuss why robots should not be treated like animals.
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Bachelor students in Media City Bergen explored the expressive range of VR journalism and produced valuable research insights for Vismedia.
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Ready for «the most powerful storytelling ever»? Welcome to a kick-off seminar on virtual reality, augmented reality and 360 video. The first wave of immersive journalism is here, with journalists and researchers testing out new tools for extended visual news coverage. In this seminar, journalism scholars from the UK, the US, Finland and Norway will give short talks on their emerging studies in this expanding field.
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What function do migration maps serve in European media? And what stories of human suffering are not told by such data visualizations? These are some of the issues explored by Professor Paul C. Adams in a new book published by Routledge
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What is actually multimedia storytelling? And why should readers be able to navigate in different directions through combinations of text, visuals and audio? Thomas Wold interviewed award-winning journalist Olivia Crellin (BBC World), who was a guest speaker at the The Power of Storytelling 2018 conference in Bergen June 6-8.
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This is one of the questions that are raised in a new book ViSmedia researcher Nicholas Diakopoulos has contributed to.
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A new generation drone weapons is on the way. In a published op-ed, Rune Ottosen urges the media to elevate the debate about these weapons.
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"Synthesized media could be just the thing that drives the public back into the arms of mainstream news organizations", Nicholas Diakopoulos writes.
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