journal article

Humanitarian VR as 360° Autopsy: Empathy and Sympathy in Immersive Storytelling

Elisabetta Modena, Andrea Pinotti

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Fabrizia Bandi

Testing innovative preparation tools for immersive virtual environments. A case study in the didactics of Art

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Andrea Pinotti

Calco mobile. La costruzione del reale nelle produzioni di non-fiction immersiva

Anna Caterina Dalmasso

Il medium di trasporto della percezione

Andrea Pinotti

Making Interaction Accessible: Virtual and Augmented Reality for Eye Contact Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Federica Cavaletti

Passing through. Gesture interfaces in virtual reality

Barbara Grespi

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Federica Cavaletti, Filippo Fimiani, Andrea Pinotti

journal article

Humanitarian VR as 360° Autopsy: Empathy and Sympathy in Immersive Storytelling

Elisabetta Modena, Andrea Pinotti

The article aims to analyse some experiences of digital and virtual storytelling that have been designed to raise public awareness on the migrant emergency by using immersive strategies to enhance its visualization and elicit empathy. The assumption of immersive media, most of all virtual reality, is that a process of immersion fostering an individual role can promote a face to face contact and incorporation of the users in the life of the victims.

While VR storytelling is still seeking a narrative form fully correspondent to its technological potential beyond the mere being there, its dispositive - in the sense of the entanglement between a technical apparatus revolving around a 360° autopsy and the related ideological discourses - is here critically deconstructed in its being polarised between an empathy catalyser and a trigger for sympathy.

book chapter

Humanitarian VR as 360° Autopsy: Empathy and Sympathy in Immersive Storytelling

Elisabetta Modena, Andrea Pinotti

keywords

The article aims to analyse some experiences of digital and virtual storytelling that have been designed to raise public awareness on the migrant emergency by using immersive strategies to enhance its visualization and elicit empathy. The assumption of immersive media, most of all virtual reality, is that a process of immersion fostering an individual role can promote a face to face contact and incorporation of the users in the life of the victims.

While VR storytelling is still seeking a narrative form fully correspondent to its technological potential beyond the mere being there, its dispositive - in the sense of the entanglement between a technical apparatus revolving around a 360° autopsy and the related ideological discourses - is here critically deconstructed in its being polarised between an empathy catalyser and a trigger for sympathy.

Book/magazine/Issue

Kodex: Jahrbuch der Internationalen Buchwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft

place of publication

Wiesbaden

year of publication

2020

Citation

E. Modena, A. Pinotti, "Humanitarian VR as 360° Autopsy: Empathy and Sympathy in Immersive Storytelling", Kodex: Jahrbuch der Internationalen Buchwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, no. 10, (2020), pp. 145-162.