Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism

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Autor(a) principal: Gómez-García, Salvador
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: de la Hera, Teresa
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i2.6515
Resumo: The goal of this study is to explore the role of digital games as political actors in digital journalism. The development of digital games designed to frame journalistic messages led to the emergence of newsgames. This trend impacts online mass media outlets’ performance as political actors in democratic polities. In this article, we explore the current relationship between political communication and newsgames by answering the following research question: How do online mass media outlets use newsgames to report, interpret, and critically analyze democratic polities? In this study, an inductive grounded theory approach was used to analyze 29 political newsgames published in 25 mass-media digital outlets across 11 different countries. The findings reveal that mass media outlets employ political newsgames to perform four distinct functions when covering political events: analytical reportage, commentary, critical scrutiny, and representation.
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title Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
spellingShingle Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
Gómez-García, Salvador
digital games; game studies; newsgames; politainment; political communication
title_short Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
title_full Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
title_fullStr Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
title_full_unstemmed Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
title_sort Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
author Gómez-García, Salvador
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de la Hera, Teresa
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de la Hera, Teresa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv digital games; game studies; newsgames; politainment; political communication
topic digital games; game studies; newsgames; politainment; political communication
description The goal of this study is to explore the role of digital games as political actors in digital journalism. The development of digital games designed to frame journalistic messages led to the emergence of newsgames. This trend impacts online mass media outlets’ performance as political actors in democratic polities. In this article, we explore the current relationship between political communication and newsgames by answering the following research question: How do online mass media outlets use newsgames to report, interpret, and critically analyze democratic polities? In this study, an inductive grounded theory approach was used to analyze 29 political newsgames published in 25 mass-media digital outlets across 11 different countries. The findings reveal that mass media outlets employ political newsgames to perform four distinct functions when covering political events: analytical reportage, commentary, critical scrutiny, and representation.
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