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Gamification and Newsgames as Narrative Innovations in Journalism
Miguel Hernández University, ESP.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7854-3476
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013). University of Stavanger, NOR.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0501-2217
Miguel Hernández University, ESP.
2022 (English)In: Total Journalism: Models, Techniques and Challenges / [ed] Jorge Vázquez-Herrero; Alba Silva-Rodríguez; María-Cruz Negreira-Rey; Carlos Toural-Bran; Xosé López-García, Springer, 2022, p. 53-67Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter explores how innovative narratives, supported by a combination of playful approaches and technological convergence, provide a reconfiguration of digital news storytelling. Newsgames integrate two opposing logics: the culture of journalism, based on truthfulness and credibility, and the culture of games, characterized by the creation of imaginary worlds, persuasion and mechanics. We analyse The Ocean Game (2019) and The Amazon Race (2019), which use different procedural strategies. We examine the development of gamification in journalistic storytelling, which uses game elements to enhance the user experience. The relationship that gamified news products establish with the audience illuminates changes in the rhetorical and structural dynamics between the news organization, the media workers, and the users. Thus, innovation in journalistic narrative through gamification and newsgames might translate into effective ways of producing content that combines rigour in substance with attractiveness in form, while preserving journalistic quality and incorporating the playful elements of games.

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Springer, 2022. p. 53-67
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Studies in Big Data, ISSN 2197-6503, E-ISSN 2197-6511 ; 97
Keywords [en]
Gamification, Innovation, Journalism, Newsgames, Digital news, Game elements, Newsgame, Technological convergence, Users' experiences, Workers', Artificial intelligence
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Media and Communications
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-91278DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88028-6_5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130092987ISBN: 978-3-030-88027-9 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-88028-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-91278DiVA, id: diva2:1682051
Available from: 2022-07-08 Created: 2022-07-08 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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