Students push storytelling boundaries using virtual reality
FIU is on a shortlist of universities nationwide using VR in journalism classrooms, including the University of Southern California and Syracuse University.
The students’ work has attracted national attention, prompting a partnership with graduate business students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to document sea level rise in South Florida using virtual reality.
In the classroom, students discuss the ethics of using virtual reality – which requires editors stitch together multiple feeds of video to create a continuous, 360-degree view – in journalism, where cutting raw footage can imply it’s been doctored, and thus unreliable.
Students also examine the effect of the digital divide, a lack of reliable internet and computer access in low-income communities, on the content they create using new technology.
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