One subject, many paths. Transmedia communication in journalism

• Autor(a) principal: Pase, André Fagundes
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Nunes, Ana Cecília Bisso, Fontoura, Marcelo Crispim da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian journalism research (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/article/view/442
• topic: Transmedia; Convergence; Journalism; Documentary; Haiti.

Transmedia communication is used mainly in fiction, but also in journalism. This paper analyzes the informational synergy of transmedia in the news field. Through a conceptual digression, we discuss the word transmedia, as defined by Jenkins (2006), cross-media and multimedia, explaining the differences between all those concepts – sometimes treated by some authors as synonyms, although they are not. The ideas are revisited and verified through the study of Inside Disaster, a Canadian documentary about the 2010 Haitian earthquake that offers news by means of game, hypertext and video. Above all, we propose a reflection on the implications of the transmedia experience applied to journalism, a look at transmedia communication thinking not only about technology, but searching for a cultural and social interpretation, in a cultural perspective of the study of technology and journalism.