IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013
This study discusses the limits and potentials of the concept of transmedia storytelling to describe citizen coverage of the 2013 protests in Brazil in the collaborative section iReport for CNN on CNN.com. The section is characteristically intermedia because it connects to online social networks and...
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Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Jornalismo
2015-12-01
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| author | Geane Alzamora Vitória Barros Jéssica Malta |
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| description | This study discusses the limits and potentials of the concept of transmedia storytelling to describe citizen coverage of the 2013 protests in Brazil in the collaborative section iReport for CNN on CNN.com. The section is characteristically intermedia because it connects to online social networks and doubles as a monthly television program with the same name. But to what extent could it also be characterized as transmedia? Systematic observation of the citizen coverage between June and July 2013 revealed a restructuring of certain editorial spaces on the site aimed at user-proposed perspectives as well as communicational activity across online social networks; both important aspects for its transmedia characterization. Furthermore, the visible hierarchical differentiation of journalistic reporting puts the transmediatic potential of the collaborative experiment into perspective by reducing the importance of expanding the narrative horizontally despite the study showing regular social scheduling for journalistic coverage as evidence of the dynamics of transmedia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3be945f1ba874beeadda572435c896542022-12-21T18:13:24ZengAssociação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em JornalismoBrazilian Journalism Research1808-40791981-98542015-12-0111218820310.25200/BJR.v11n2.2015.852600IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013Geane Alzamora0Vitória Barros1Jéssica Malta2Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisThis study discusses the limits and potentials of the concept of transmedia storytelling to describe citizen coverage of the 2013 protests in Brazil in the collaborative section iReport for CNN on CNN.com. The section is characteristically intermedia because it connects to online social networks and doubles as a monthly television program with the same name. But to what extent could it also be characterized as transmedia? Systematic observation of the citizen coverage between June and July 2013 revealed a restructuring of certain editorial spaces on the site aimed at user-proposed perspectives as well as communicational activity across online social networks; both important aspects for its transmedia characterization. Furthermore, the visible hierarchical differentiation of journalistic reporting puts the transmediatic potential of the collaborative experiment into perspective by reducing the importance of expanding the narrative horizontally despite the study showing regular social scheduling for journalistic coverage as evidence of the dynamics of transmedia.https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/article/view/852Transmedia StorytellingCollaborative JournalismProtestsiReport for CNN |
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| title | IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013 |
| title_full | IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013 |
| title_fullStr | IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013 |
| title_full_unstemmed | IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013 |
| title_short | IReport for CNN Transmedia Storytelling On The Brazilian Protests in 2013 |
| title_sort | ireport for cnn transmedia storytelling on the brazilian protests in 2013 |
| topic | Transmedia Storytelling Collaborative Journalism Protests iReport for CNN |
| url | https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/article/view/852 |
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