Effects of virtual reality news on knowledge gain and news attitudes
- Authors
- Jeong, Se-Hoon; Kim, Sonho; Yum, Jung-Yoon; Hwang, Yoori
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD
- Keywords
- virtual reality; VR; news; journalism; knowledge; attitudes
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, v.18, no.3, pp.300 - 313
- Indexed
- SSCI
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
- Volume
- 18
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 300
- End Page
- 313
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/59104
- DOI
- 10.1504/IJMC.2020.107098
- ISSN
- 1470-949X
- Abstract
- This research examined the effects of virtual reality (VR) news on knowledge gain and news attitudes. This study found that compared to non-VR news, VR news could have a negative impact on knowledge gain, whereas it could have some positive effect on news attitudes. The positive effect on news attitudes was only found with a more experience-related news topic (i.e., travel sites in Rio de Janeiro), but not with a less experience-related news topic (i.e., new surgical procedure for pancreatic cancer). The positive impact of VR on news attitudes was mediated by presence and subsequent enjoyment.
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