Abstract
Research about multimedia news storytelling contains several empirical studies, but these lack a theoretical foundation. This article proposes a transdisciplinary foundation of multimedia news storytelling, based on semiotics and narratology. First, the bases of multimedia news storytelling are explained using a hypothetical-deductive methodology and the semiotic categories of ideation-composition-reception. Second, based on narratology, the multimedia storytelling process is described, starting from the pre-compositive stage, in which journalists assemble the stories, to the final stage of navigation by the participatory users. The combination of both theoretical foundations allows us to explain the nature of multimedia news storytelling, based on three elements: 1) syntactic coherence between the multiple languages used, 2)open and collective authorship, and 3) participatory reception by the audience.
Highlights
Narrative convergence as the axis of other convergencesThe transformation of public communication fueled by digital technology opens a horizon of heterogeneous and interrelated paradigms
In line with several previous studies (Infotendencias Group, 2012), our work starts from the idea that in narrative convergence converge the other spheres of media convergence, because all journalistic content is the result of a productive process and a kind of organization
The objective of this research is to present the description of a multimedia journalistic narrative system that uses a theoretical and conceptual framework based on the three-dimensional semiotic axis of syntax-semantics-pragmatics, translatable to a multimedia model of ideation-composition-reception
Summary
The transformation of public communication fueled by digital technology opens a horizon of heterogeneous and interrelated paradigms. The interest of pragmatic semiotics lies the mental process of interpretation and decoding that occurs in the mind of the recipient, influenced by the culture and its space-temporal context This process is what is understood as the ‘semiosic process’ (Greimas; Courtes, 1982), which allows us to present any commuin the importance it gives to reception, culture and, in general, to the circumstances that bring meaning to the communicative process nicative act as an open and collective process. His study is part of the so-called narrative architecture or ‘archeology of composition’ (Manovich, 2005), which analyzes its construction and its elements (Paul; Fiebich, 2003) as part of a ‘postmodern narrative’ interpreted in the context of a postmodern culture (Fulton, 2005) In this broad context, the objective of this research is to present the description of a multimedia journalistic narrative system that uses a theoretical and conceptual framework based on the three-dimensional semiotic axis of syntax-semantics-pragmatics, translatable to a multimedia model of ideation-composition-reception. In essence, how to establish the syntactic and semantic connections of the multimedia elements that contribute coherence to the story; and, the new role of the journalist/author and the receiver/co-author in the multimedia journalistic narrative, understood as a collective and open process, which is assembled by the journalist and waiting for the user
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