Week 6: Immersive Journalism
Such is the plight of immersive journalism which is often flacked as politically construed rather then being an objective representation of factual truths. Also, if it is combined with VR, it can often lead to an uncanny "step into someone else's shoes experience"
Journalists strive to convey the facts, the scene, in their stories; to become witnesses to the events that shape the world and report back to the reader. Nonny de la Peña has figured out how to do that withV R, where the reporter from the mix is pushing society directly into the fray.
With the help of virtual reality, Nonny's immersive journalism has managed to tear away the thin gray line of newsprint that separates harrowing, tragic, befuddling facts and trends from the mendacity of a newspaper column inch.
Her work breathes life into a data-rich work of journalism about torture methodology, places a face on the statistics of homelessness and hunger, makes real the everyday plight and terror of domestic violence, and reminds everyone of the child victims of war.
I find it fascinating extremely an politically powerful.