Virtual Reality
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Audience engagement efforts aren’t new – they’re just different these days, sociology professor argues
By JASMINE BALA Staff reporter Building audience engagement has long been a newsroom preoccupation, only today it involves Instagram and Facebook, while in the past publishers seduced readers with paper cut-out toys and thrilling accounts of reporters on around-the-world races against time. New research on the history of Sunday newspapers by Paul Moore, an associate professor in Ryerson University’s sociology…
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Recreating the experience: An experiment in virtual reality journalism
By ILINA GHOSH Staff Reporter Canadian Press photo editor Marie-Espérance Cerda was in the midst of this year’s violent May Day protests in Montreal and her virtual reality coverage of the event allows audiences to share in the experience. Cerda’s experiment in virtual reality journalism plunges the user into a three-dimensional world, entirely filling the user’s field of view with…
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