Volume 56 (2023), Edition 4

The introduction of virtual reality (VR) in journalism opens up a participatory-immer- sive dimension of reporting. As an interactive interface between human and machine, VR technologies enable the immersion of recipients in synthetically presented...

On the epistemological basis of a pragmatic-empirical concept of reality, the article deals with the professional ethical norm that fictional elements in journalism must be recogniz- able as such. In addition to a reconstruction of its development,...

Entertainment media not only depict social developments. Rather, they also stimulate, discuss, comment on, and disseminate them. This paper therefore focuses on the rep- resentation of virtuality in popular culture, specifically in games and movies....

During the Corona pandemic, virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality became increasingly widespread in society and education. The creation of immersive (learning) en- vironments holds potentials as well as challenges. In the project...

Virtual reality has so far played only a marginal role in journalist training. In two cours- es at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, we have tried to integrate this new format into teaching. Here we report on the two projects, our...

Since the Russian attack on Ukraine, this war has dominated news coverage and poses challenges to journalists in their daily work. A qualitative content analysis of the print and Instagram coverage of selected German leading media in the period...

Bringing digital ethics to the people: That is the goal of the podcast “Ethik Digital” [“Digi- tal Ethics”], which journalists Rieke C. Harmsen and Christine Ulrich launched two and a half years ago. In the individual episodes, they speak to...

The Psalm adaptation of the track “Rivers of Babylon” (1978) became the most successful song of the disco group “Boney M.”. The recourse to the Bible became the basis for a global hit that is still played in many countries around the world....