IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: To Be or Not to Be Transmedia?

Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: To Be or Not to Be Transmedia?
View Sample PDF
Author(s): João Canavilhas (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 14
Source title: Journalism and Ethics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8359-2.ch046

Purchase

View Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: To Be or Not to Be Transmedia? on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

Transmedia content has been the subject of several studies in the field of fiction, sustaining relative unanimity about the characteristics that this kind of content should have. In the field of journalism, the situation is fairly different due to its particular specificities. Multimedia, intermedia, or cross-media are often wrongly used as synonymous of transmedia, although there are important differences between all these concepts. In part, this misunderstanding is motivated by the fact that all of them relate to convergence processes in journalism, but a more detailed analysis allows us to find differences, highlighting transmedia as the most complete concept. This chapter proposes a framework that can support journalists in the production of transmedia contents that conveniently explore the characteristics of the involved media, using formats and languages that better fit the story, and enabling the user to engage in the interpretation, change, and distribution of these contents.

Related Content

N. L. Swathi, Achukutla Kumar. © 2024. 17 pages.
Gurwinder Singh, Anshika Thakur. © 2024. 21 pages.
Ashok Singh Gaur, Hari Om Sharan, Rajeev Kumar. © 2024. 16 pages.
Sabyasachi Pramanik. © 2024. 17 pages.
Geetha Manoharan, Abdul Razak, C. V. Guru Rao, Sunitha Purushottam Ashtikar, M. Nivedha. © 2024. 28 pages.
Roop Kamal, Manpreet Kaur, Jaspreet Kaur, Shivani Malhan. © 2024. 10 pages.
Anu Sharma. © 2024. 8 pages.
Body Bottom