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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
News Games and Mobile Journalism: A Proposal for a
Theoretical Rapprochement
Milton Cappelletti Júnior
Master Student of “Communication Research Programme” at Universidad de Vigo,
Pontevedra, Spain
Abstract
With the development of the game industry and its growing importance to the
entertainment industry, most media companies are starting to use the games as a new
way to inform and entertain your audience, especially through online platforms, which
led to the emergence of the newsgames concept, the format in which video games are
produced and used to explain current information in a ludic way, putting complex
information into context and allowing greater interactivity through the use of the
practical elements of journalism applied to game design. This ludic-information can
also be found in the core of Mobile Journalism, owing to the fact that it finds here the
technological support to adapt itself to the user context and its ubiquity, being strongly
linked to the user's identity and their everyday social interactions within primary groups.
Thus, this paper seeks to establish the coordinates of a theoretical rapprochement
between the Newsgames and Mobile Journalism, aiming to establish relationships that
enable the development of common practices to suit the changing needs of the public
to contemporary media compounds.
Keywords: News Games, Mobile Journalism, Contemporary Communication
Technologies.
Introduction
The development of the new technologies in communication resulted in the
development and shaping of a new culture that values real-time data and ubiquitous
and more playful and entertained information. You can also add the multiple media
platforms that value mobility and the diversity of formats and informational contents.
Both the development of technological standards and a strong social base in relation to
daily use, portability and individual identity have made mobile phone the ideal device
for bringing together many of the uses that characterize the Information Society,
making it a congregator device of digital devices and laying the foundation for the true
integration of features and services that forms the basis of the mediation process of the
mobile telephony.
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