TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of 360° video on attitudes toward disaster communication
T2 - Mediating and moderating roles of spatial presence and prior disaster media involvement
AU - Fraustino, Julia Daisy
AU - Lee, Ji Young
AU - Lee, Sang Yeal
AU - Ahn, Hongmin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - Visual media technologies such as 360° video, augmented reality, and virtual reality are on the rise for immersive storytelling in a variety of public relations contexts. Yet there is a profound lack of scholarly research in public relations, crisis communication, and disaster communication to explore the effects of content displayed using these delivery formats on publics’ responses. To begin addressing the knowledge gap, this work reports results from a laboratory experiment investigating effects of media modality (traditional unidirectional video content vs. 360° omnidirectional video content) on attitudes toward the disaster communication content. Results demonstrate that 360° video featuring the aftermath of a natural disaster yields enhanced attitudes toward the helpful impact of the content. Importantly, mediation analyses show that (1) a sense of spatial presence underlies these effects, and (2) the mediating effects of spatial presence are attenuated by involvement with similar disaster media coverage (indirect experience).
AB - Visual media technologies such as 360° video, augmented reality, and virtual reality are on the rise for immersive storytelling in a variety of public relations contexts. Yet there is a profound lack of scholarly research in public relations, crisis communication, and disaster communication to explore the effects of content displayed using these delivery formats on publics’ responses. To begin addressing the knowledge gap, this work reports results from a laboratory experiment investigating effects of media modality (traditional unidirectional video content vs. 360° omnidirectional video content) on attitudes toward the disaster communication content. Results demonstrate that 360° video featuring the aftermath of a natural disaster yields enhanced attitudes toward the helpful impact of the content. Importantly, mediation analyses show that (1) a sense of spatial presence underlies these effects, and (2) the mediating effects of spatial presence are attenuated by involvement with similar disaster media coverage (indirect experience).
KW - 360° video
KW - Crisis communication
KW - Disaster communication
KW - Immersive media
KW - Presence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042586499&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pubrev.2018.02.003
DO - 10.1016/j.pubrev.2018.02.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042586499
SN - 0363-8111
VL - 44
SP - 331
EP - 341
JO - Public Relations Review
JF - Public Relations Review
IS - 3
ER -