Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms - Field Testing the Future

Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms teaches students in media tracks - journalism, advertising, film, and public relations - how to independently field test and evaluate emerging technologies that could impact how media is produced, consumed, and monetized in the future.

Taking a unique trial-and-error approach, the author encourages students to go against their desire for perfection and instead plunge into exercises with the full expectation that they will "fail" many times before they succeed. Through focused assignments, this book provides pointers on how to familiarize oneself with current technology, including extended reality (XR, VR, AR, and MR), open-source coding, photogrammetry, aerial imagery using drones, automation, and artificial intelligence. Readers are invited to create and test their own hypotheses and work outside of their comfort zones to reach conclusions on how a technology could enhance storytelling for a particular a