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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
Video suits informative, interpretative, dialogic and argumentative genres on the web
in various ways, both reinforcing and enhancing their distinctive features and enabling
their evolution and growth in effectiveness and expressive wealth in a way that text
and still pictures could not provide by themselves.
The aforementioned is part of an ongoing PhD thesis research project that explores
the editorial impact of the development and growth of video production in online news
operations in Spain. Such effort is relevant both to updating the news genres
framework for online journalists, and to reinforcing the audiovisual mindset in the
education of aspiring online journalists, fitted to the technical possibilities and
expressive features that the internet currently provides.
The journalistic message within the convergence framework: a case study
analysis of hypertextual news stories in quality online media
Larrondo Ureta, Ainara
Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, Univesity of the Basque Country,
Bilbao, Spain
Media convergence promotes an integration of languages previously dispersed and
the creation of innovative products with consequences in the traditional form of the
journalistic message. This scenario requires more thorough studies developing quality
criteria on issues such as the structuring of informa¬tion within a news site and the
combination of data in different media formats. This line of research is thus currently
one of the most productive in online journalism, as hypertextuality has turned into a
key element for studying the potential of web content and genres, as with multimedia.
Considering it, this paper discusses the effect of convergence in online journalistic
language, bearing in mind the foremost characteristics of communication in this
changing framework: complexity, depth, non-linearity, divergence, multimediality and
interactivity. This argument supports the case study presented in this paper, carried
out in the framework of the I+D project “Evolution of Spanish online media facing
convergence Message and content analysis” (CSO2009-13713-C05-04), funded by
the Spanish Government. This analysis examines structure, style and function of
hypertextual new stories published in worldwide online media which have been
selected by means of quality criteria: Clarin.com (Argentina), Guardian.co.uk (United
Kingdom), Elpaís.com (Spain), Lemonde.fr (France), Nytimes.com (United States),
Oglobo.globo.com (Brazil) and Repubblica.it (Italy). The research methodology is
based on a qualitative message analysis procedure focused on hypertext rhetoric:
types of links and non-linear reporting patterns, particularly those related to
coherence strategy of hypertextual narrative. The data codification has been carried
out using a database with a combination of fields, following the indicators proposed.
The study results make it possible to contrast data and establish significant
conclusions that show an enrichment of news message on the Web.
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