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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
of other simpler versions of them and about the replacement that was done to the
chosen one. At this point, we observed few previously versions and the tendency to
accumulate links the in main news by most of the media.
Conclusions
Longer and deeper analysis is needed, as we planned to, carrying it on during a
month and with more media involved in. However, this first approach led us to some
primary conclusions about our hypothesis and about the validity of the methodology
employed.
First of all, we consider content analysis a suitable method and the analysis tab a
good basis to start with. Our proposal has answered the questions related to the
hypothesis, whether to describe characteristics and possible innovations in online
journalism genres and to establish its relationship with its counterpart media.
Dismembering the elements of a news and linking them with the different formats and
the 5 W questions, we would have appreciated a new way of building the news based
on the hypertextual structure and the possible combinations of the genres.
Despite that most news studied were mainly textual, we observed a little difference
between the ones that had a radio or TV counterpart with the ones coming from
newspaper or online natives. First ones used the news on TV or radio to add it to the
news on the web. Regarding language and style, a longer analysis in time would be
able to conclude some kind of pattern in online journalistic routines. Finally, we did
not found any common infographics during this week of analysis.
Focusing on information architecture and visualization as well as usability guidelines,
media respected general criteria of using simple and coherent typography and colour.
They differentiated the text from the links and, most of them, the headline from the top
title, the subtitle, the introduction and the body text. We have to remember that
usability theories recommend not employing less than 12 points.
Deepening the parts of the discourse, Inventio and Dispositio were represented by
links (in and out of text) and by the hypertextual structure generated with them. Actio
was driven by the grade of interactivity and Elocutio by the multimedia resources.
Memoria is memory, a potentiality of the media related to hypertext. As a conclusion,
we still found textual news with additional resources like more textual, graphic or
multimedia links. The complexity of the narrative was determined by the number of
nodes or links related, its availability and hierarchy.
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