PRESENTATION OF THE CHANGING NEWS IN DIGITAL ERA: VIRTUAL REALITY PRACTICES IN JOURNALISM

In today’s digital era, there are concerns on depersonalization of the audiences on similar presentations of the news, due to the intensive information flow and routinized news production. Immersive journalism practices move in as a different kind of storytelling by putting the audience into the story by using virtual reality practices in journalism and get them involved in the story emotionally. Immersive is defined as, “to surround the audience by pulling them into the subject or event”. Immersive journalism is determined as a form of journalism that will shape the future of journalism. Because immersive journalism gives the opportunity to experience the feeling of being there as the person lived the event or situation, by raising the emotional reality and helps the audience to empathy. This study focuses on virtual reality applications, concept of immersive journalism, in different forms application samples, immersive technologies, journalism requirements and types of journalistic stories