Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making : Transmediation is key
Journal article
Mills, Kathy A. and Brown, A.. (2022). Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making : Transmediation is key. Learning, Media and Technology. 47(2), pp. 179-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1952428
Authors | Mills, Kathy A. and Brown, A. |
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Abstract | The rapid evolution of virtual reality (VR) technologies and their adoption for learning opens up new possibilities for shifting semiotic content across modes, with underexplored scope for transmediating content in visual, haptic, and auditory ways in immersive media literacy practices. This research investigated users’ creative digital designing involving a popular, three-dimensional virtual painting program with upper elementary students who used a VR head mounted display and sensors. The analysis attended to how students transmediated the same story across written, verbal, and virtual painting modes, tracing key themes of the students’ virtual experience: (i) immersion and three-dimensionality, (ii) subjective presence, (iii) sensory illusion, and (iv) interactivity with motion tracking. Students reassembled and shifted narrative content, sometimes seamlessly, while experiencing ambiguity and complexity about three-dimensional representation in an immersive world. Producing stories across modes invited adaptation and generative thinking to overcome the lack of equivalence between writing, drawing, and virtual painting modes. |
Keywords | immersion; digital media; multimodal; transmediation; virtual reality |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Learning, Media and Technology |
Journal citation | 47 (2), pp. 179-200 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1743-9884 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1952428 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85110591785 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.sensestogether.com |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 179-200 |
Project | Sensory orchestration for multimodal literacy learning in primary education |
Funder | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
Related Output | |
Is part of | PURL: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100009 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 12 Jul 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 02 Jul 2021 |
Deposited | 25 Oct 2021 |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | FT180100009 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8wxq0/immersive-virtual-reality-vr-for-digital-media-making-transmediation-is-key
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