[Commlist] CfP: Brazilian Journalism Research - Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities in Journalism: Theory, Practice, Critique

Call for Papers: Brazilian Journalism Research (BJR)

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities in Journalism: Theory, Practice, 
Critique



Editors: Paulo Nuno Vicente (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) and

Sara Pérez- Seijo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)


Submission deadline: September 30, 2022


The magnitude of the changes that occurred during the last 25 years of 
digital journalism has given way to a new communication scenario full of 
opportunities but also of professional and ethical challenges 
(Salaverría, 2019). Technology is behind many of the transformations 
that have taken place during this time and that have had an impact on 
the models of production, distribution and even consumption of 
information. The metamorphosis experienced, as referred to by certain 
authors (López-García, 2010; Vázquez-Herrero et al., 2020), has led to 
the current scenario: convergent, mobile and now also ubiquitous 
(Pavlik, 2001; Salaverría, 2015).


News media organizations are currently witnessing the introduction of a 
set of high- technologies in our daily lives: 5G, the Internet of Things 
(IoT), blockchain, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 
intelligent virtual assistants, among others (López- García, 2019; 
Mosco, 2017). Its introduction in journalism practices has given way to 
what has been named as Hi-tech Journalism (Larrondo and López-García, 
2020; Murcia and Ufarte, 2019; Pérez-Seijo et al., 2020; Salaverría, 
2015; Ufarte et al., 2020). This label encompasses different trends that 
shape the "journalism that will tell the future" (López- Hidalgo, 2016, 
p. 255): use of drones to cover news (Fischer, 2019); VR and 360-degree 
video Journalism (Mabrook and Singer, 2019), also referred to as 
Immersive Journalism (De la Peña et al., 2010); augmented reality for 
news (Aitamurto et al., 2020); Automated, Robot or Algorithmic 
Journalism (Caswell and Dörr, 2018); and, among others, use of 
conversational bots –chatbots– in news websites (Ford and Hutchinson, 
2019; Jones and Jones, 2019).


In this issue, we pay special attention to the fluid relationships 
between journalism, immersive media, and virtual worlds, particularly to 
the progressive hybridity of the

relationships between the physical and tangible worlds and the emerging 
forms of interaction and immersion through digital media. We are 
witnessing the emergence of augmented reality and mixed realities as 
narrative media for journalism (Pavlik and Bridges, 2013), making an 
opposition between analogue and digital mediation unsustainable within a 
hybrid media culture (Lindgren, 2014).


Immersive technologies such as VR, AR, MR or even 360-degree video opens 
the way to immersive storytelling (Doyle, Gelman and Gill, 2016; Gynnild 
et al., 2019, Hardee & McMahan, 2017), aimed at offering user a 
first-person experience of the stories and represented realities (De la 
Peña et al., 2010; Pavlik, 2018). Technological convergence has also 
enabled access to 360-degree videos and VR, AR or MR experiences from 
mobile devices and HMD or VR headsets (Aitamurto et al., 2020; 
Paíno-Ambrosio et al., 2019; Tejedor-Calvo et al., 2020). Applied to 
journalism, immersive technologies introduce an "experiential" dimension 
in news consumption (Pavlik, 2019).


To contribute to the knowledge on this issue, this dossier aims to 
answer questions such as the following:

  * What perspectives are opened by journalistic adoption of mixed
    realities, holography, and progressively personalized personal
    assistants?
  * What ethical issues emerge with the introduction of immersive
    technologies in newsrooms?
  * How 360-degree video, VR, AR, or MR impact on newsrooms?
  * To what extent does the use of immersive technologies such as
    360-degree video, VR, AR, or MR reconfigure journalistic frameworks?
  * What ethical challenges do these new technologies open for journalism?
  * To what extent does the use of immersive technologies contribute to
    a better news experience?
  * To what extent do these technological advances widen the gap between
    established brands and novel digital native media?
  * How can and should journalism education appropriate this
    technological integration?


This dossier welcomes research papers from areas such as Journalism, 
Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Machine Communication 
that contribute to the study of the impact of immersive technologies 
(360-degree video, AR, AR, MR) on media and journalism. Both theoretical 
and empirical proposals addressing the following lines of research or 
other similar ones will be accepted:


- Production of non-fiction mixed realities narratives

-  VR and 360-degree video Journalism

- User experience in 360-degree video news stories

- User experience in virtual news environments

-  Challenges in Immersive Journalism

- Immersive Journalism and ethics

-  Objectivity and accuracy in VR and 360-degree video news stories

-  Augmented Reality Journalism

-  Mobile Augmented Reality and news stories

- User experience with AR

- Challenges and ethics in AR Journalism

-  Business models for Immersive Journalism

-  Mixed Realities and Journalism


Articles must be 40,000 to 55,000 characters (including references and 
spaces) and submitted by September 30, 2022


The /Brazilian Journalism Research/ accepts manuscripts in Portuguese, 
Spanish, French and English. Authors submitting in Portuguese, Spanish 
or French must provide an English translation a month after receiving 
acceptance for publication.


The manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s electronic platform at:

<http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br <http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br>>

Contact for more information : (bjreditor /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(bjreditor /at/ gmail.com)>


Instructions for authors:

<https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/about/submissions#authorGuidelines 
<https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/about/submissions#authorGuidelines>>


Date of manuscript submission: September 30, 2022

Notification of acceptance: April 30 2023.
Date of publication: August 30, 2023

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