A Threat Analysis of Virtual Reality for the Media Industry

SMPTE 2018 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Diehl
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Threat Analysis ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals НОВІТНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ МЕДІАІНДУСТРІЇ: МОЖЛИВОСТІ ТА ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ В УКРАЇНІ

2020 ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
A. Kondryko ◽  
A. Drachova
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
User Interest ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Fact Checking

<div><p><em>In the article covered the features of implementing and using additional Internet functionality in the information space: in particular, audience analysis services, content research, fact-checking in real-time, automatic news generation, bots and mobile apps that are rapidly gaining popularity in modern journalism.</em></p></div><p> </p><p><em>Defined, some mobile apps: The Dragon Diction (speechy), Cogi, Imovie, Snapseed, Camscanner, Canva, Sweet Text: Story Maker &amp; GIF can help detect dictation and save it in text format; make notes, add some images, select certain parts; compose multiple videos, add audio effects and titles; edit images, backgrounds, colours, shades; scan documents and savе them in the required format; create any infographic, text and publication in different formats; make animated text stories accordingly.</em><em></em></p><p><em>The essence and purpose of IT capabilities such as virtual reality (enhancing user interest, stimulating brain activity while browsing content, etc.) and augmented reality (enhancing the effect of information through additional materials, graphics and visualisation) are detailed. It is emphasised that the introduction of the cyber tools in the media is due to the need to meet market trends, competition at local and global levels, the need to clarify data, the demanding potential audience.</em><em></em></p><p><em>Monitoring of using the latest IT in the Ukrainian media industry has revealed the presence its in the TV programs: «Siogodni», «Siogodni. Pidsymku z Olegom Panyutoyu» (TV channel «Ukrayina»), «TSN» («1+1»), programs of TV-channel «NASH», multimedia project «Ukrainer», magazine «Marie Claire», which confirmed the popularity of new formats for creating and implementing information product in Ukraine.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong><em> visualisation, virtual reality, augmented reality, Internet functionality, cyber tools, media product, fact-checking.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals The Commuting Behavior Evolution in Suburban Express Line after Operation: Based on Multi-Source Space-Time Big Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Guo ◽  
◽  
Lixuan Min ◽  
Huize Yang ◽  
Lujian Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
The Media

Virtual Reality news (VR news) provides news reports relying on virtual reality technology, creating a strong sense of immersion and presence. It is a new format of news and a new application for immersive media. Previous researches studies on VR news mainly focus on the range of topics and the media effect, and point out the advantages and disadvantages of them. However, the content of VR news is usually neglected. This research aims to conduct a content analysis on the VR news from CCTV.com by applying the framing theory. The coding scheme is designed based on Zang Guoren’s three-level structures theory, analyzing 220 pieces of news in total. According to the objective data obtained through the analysis, the conclusion is drawn on significant features about VR news, including theme, source, tendency, narrative structure, multimodal presentation, and framework. This research has theoretical significance for it applies the framework theory to analyze the VR news, and also provides inspiration for the production of VR news and the media industry.

Racism and silencing in the media in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 117718012110154
Author(s):  
Liana MacDonald ◽  
Adreanne Ormond
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Racial Discourse ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Zealanders

Racism in the Aotearoa New Zealand media is the subject of scholarly debate that examines how Māori (Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) are broadcast in a negative and demeaning light. Literature demonstrates evolving understandings of how the industry places Pākehā (New Zealanders primarily of European descent) interests at the heart of broadcasting. We offer new insights by arguing that the media industry propagates a racial discourse of silencing that sustains widespread ignorance of the ways that Pākehā sensibilities mediate society. We draw attention to a silencing discourse through one televised story in 2018. On-screen interactions reproduce and safeguard a harmonious narrative of settler–Indigenous relations that support ignorance and denial of the structuring force of colonisation, and the Television Code of Broadcasting Practice upholds colour-blind perceptions of discrimination and injustice through liberal rhetoric. These processes ensure that the media industry is complicit in racism and the ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples.

scholarly journals Adapting to context: Creative strategies of video streaming services in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110173
Author(s):  
Godwin Iretomiwa Simon
Keyword(s):  
Video On Demand ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Media ◽  
Streaming Services

This article examines the contextual challenges that characterize the video on demand (VOD) market in Africa. It provides critical analysis of the creative strategies employed by Nigeria-based streaming services to navigate the peculiar business environment on the continent. This research is on the background of the poor Internet infrastructure and economic divides in many African countries including Nigeria. Streaming services operating in these markets must understand a context where Internet access is complicated on the levels of availability and/or affordability, including significant lack of confidence in e-payment facilities. All these, together with epileptic power supply and poor standard of living, indicate that streaming services must innovate to capture subscribers within the continent. Despite the harsh operational environment, streaming services in Nigeria have continued to increase in number within the past 5 years. This is attributed to the transnational reach of the streaming services as they are patronized by Africans in diaspora across the globe, while they also enjoy popularity within African countries. This article specifically focuses on the innovative strategies employed by Nigerian streaming services to operate within their African markets in the context of their peculiar challenges. In so doing, it extends extant scholarship about Internet-distributed video using the African context. This article is situated within the Media Industry Studies framework and draws from semi-structured interviews with 7 streaming executives in Nigeria and 10 creative professionals in the Nigerian Video Film Industry (Nollywood). It also relies on desk research of press reports, industry publications, as well as the interfaces of streaming portals. This article underscores the necessity of contextualized research with the digital turn in video distribution. Through contextualized analysis of VOD market realities in a less studied terrain like Africa, it aligns with scholarly call to expand theories of Internet-distributed video to marginal contexts.

scholarly journals ‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652097996
Author(s):  
David Philip Green ◽  
Mandy Rose ◽  
Chris Bevan ◽  
Harry Farmer ◽  
Kirsten Cater ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
New Media ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
At Home

Consumer virtual reality (VR) headsets (e.g. Oculus Go) have brought VR non-fiction (VRNF) within reach of at-home audiences. However, despite increase in VR hardware sales and enthusiasm for the platform among niche audiences at festivals, mainstream audience interest in VRNF is not yet proven. This is despite a growing body of critically acclaimed VRNF, some of which is freely available. In seeking to understand a lack of engagement with VRNF by mainstream audiences, we need to be aware of challenges relating to the discovery of content and bear in mind the cost, inaccessibility and known limitations of consumer VR technology. However, we also need to set these issues within the context of the wider relationships between technology, society and the media, which have influenced the uptake of new media technologies in the past. To address this work, this article provides accounts by members of the public of their responses to VRNF as experienced within their households. We present an empirical study – one of the first of its kind – exploring these questions through qualitative research facilitating diverse households to experience VRNF at home, over several months. We find considerable enthusiasm for VR as a platform for non-fiction, but we also find this enthusiasm tempered by ethical concerns relating to both the platform and the content, and a pervasive tension between the platform and the home setting. Reflecting on our findings, we suggest that VRNF currently fails to meet any ‘supervening social necessity’ (Winston, 1996, Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television. British: BFI.) that would pave the way for widespread domestic uptake, and we reflect on future directions for VR in the home.

scholarly journals Design of Evaluation Areas Based on Type of Mobile-Based Virtual Reality Training Content

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mi Kyoung Jin ◽  
Hui Jeong Yun ◽  
Hye Sun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Mobile Environments ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Content Quality ◽  
Marked Variability ◽  
Vr Training ◽  
The Media ◽  
Procedure Learning ◽  
Content Design

In the field of technology education, virtual reality (VR) training has received significant attention in terms of its efficacy in use. Given its many advantages, there is a specific need to emphasize concrete measures for the implementation of VR training in the field of tech education. VR training based on mobile environments has been touted as a means of not only enhancing presence, flow, and learning authenticity, but also of minimizing spatial and temporal constraints. The present study has developed an evaluation tool for VR training contents, including those based on mobile environments. After categorizing VR training contents in the field of tech education into structure comprehension type, procedure learning type, and equipment experiment type contents, we constructed items for each evaluation area. The considered areas included learning, media, and content quality. By conducting Delphi surveys with a panel of experts, we confirmed that the derived evaluation items differed in number across different types of content. Under the learning area, satisfaction was found to be adequate for all content types. Items such as flow, interactivity, and learning effects were found to be adequate for procedure learning and equipment experiment type contents. The media area indicated marked variability in item adequacy depending on the content type. Usability was found to be adequate only for procedure learning type content. For equipment experiment type content, items such as presence, usability, and manipulability were all found to be adequate. All evaluation items under the content design area were found to be adequate across all content types. Thus, regardless of the type of content, it is necessary to fulfil the basic elements within the content design area in order to establish the efficacy of VR training as educational content in the field of tech education.

scholarly journals Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Ladendorf
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Type ◽  
Information Work ◽  
Individual Ethics

Abstract The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ethical reasoning? Thirteen interviews with freelancers living in a peripheral northern county in Sweden were analyzed, using a combination of discourse analysis and narrative theory methods and a virtue ethics theoretical framework. It was found that 11 out of 13 informants worked occasionally or regularly with information-type assignments. To sustain the informants’ professional roles and selfidentities of integrity and impartiality, having boundary settings between, first, information/ PR and journalist roles and, second, information and journalist type assignments was crucial. It was evident that individual ethics had replaced professional principles. The freelancers reflexively process media industry constraints, together with their everyday working conditions, in a situation where the ideals and norms of the profession constitute the background for their individual action ethics.

scholarly journals Counter-hegemony of the East Java Biennale art community against the domination of hoax content reproduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Jokhanan Kristiyono ◽  
Rachmah Ida ◽  
Musta'in Mashud
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Digital Counter ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Art Community

This research analyses and describes in detail how the digital biennale activities that are a part of the Indonesian Digital art community has become a form of criticism and silent resistance to the social hegemony. It refers to the ideology, norms, rules, and myths that exist in modern society in Indonesia, especially the reproduction of hoax content. Hoax refers to the logic people who live in a world of cyber media with all of its social implications. This phenomenon is a problem, and it is at the heart of the exploration of the art community in East Java Biennale. The critical social theory perspective of Gramsci’s theory forms the basis of this research analysis. The qualitative research approach used a digital ethnomethodology research method focused on the online and offline social movements in the Biennale Art Community. The data collection techniques used were observation and non-active participation in the process of reproduction-related to the exhibition of Indonesian Biennale digital artworks. It was then analyzed using Gramsci’s hegemony theory. The purpose of this study was to describe the process of social movements in a digital format conducted by the Indonesian Biennale when reproducing works of art to counteract the dominance and hegemony of the Hoax phenomenon in Indonesia. The benefit of this research was that it obtained a preposition of Gramsci’s hegemony theory in the world of digital art as created by contemporary Indonesian Biennale artists. Digital technology has had a tremendous effect on the media industry, government, trade, informal industry sector, human resources, urban planning, services, disaster relief, health, education, religion, artistic and cultural expression, in addition to various other fields. The conclusion obtained from this research is that there is a formation of a new hegemony, a digital hegemony. This new hegemony is of particular concern for the digital artists in East Java Biennale. Through the digital format works, the artists also try to communicate their art as a form of silent resistance, protest, and criticism of the hegemony that occurs in society, referring to the ideology, norms, and myths. It can be called a digital counter-hegemony.s

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