When someone asks ‘What’s the news’, I often heard the reply,’Watch CNN for that’. I guess there’s a specific reason why the CNN is one of the most trusted names in the news industry. The latest news about the news company is that they are going to open up virtual reality citizen journalism kiosks.
Second Life is the future online virtual world. As a matter of fact it allows people to live two lives. Welcome to Virtual reality! The best part about this kind of virtual news kiosks is, CNN trains people to be online journalists. The training comes from the organization’s top journalists like Larry King.
Beside the training aspect, CNN will also have Reuters embedded in the virtual world. This will help the company economically, as well as expand it’s scope of news coverage and even allow new citizen journalists (who are quite passionate about news) to work on new stories from around the world.
The virtual world will pretty much be a carbon copy of the real world that we live in today. So the virtual news will be a replica of the real world news as well. Second life reports will include everything from celeb sightings to store openings. For example, Aramani’s virtual store opening lets users create a story on the topic. I think this is a great way to increase CNN’s channel popularity. The creation of i-Reports, will also help users mess around with the online journalism.
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