The Transmedia Script for Nonfictional Narratives

Abstract

This chapter proposes a journey through an experience of transmedia journalism developed by the multimedia communication team at the National University of Rosario, Argentina, focusing on the transformation of the current media ecosystem, the characteristics assumed by transmedia storytelling in a nonfictional field, and the development of the transmedia script for the project Women for Sale, a transmedia documentary that addresses the trafficking of people for the purposes of sexual exploitation. The creation of a complex narrative universe and the definitions of stories, platforms, user experiences, and the execution of a transmedia project are analyzed in light of what has been learned in this experience of journalistic production.

Dissecting Automated News Production From a Transdisciplinary Perspective: Methodology, Linguistic Application, and Narrative Genres

“…In this study, the narrative genres of automated news are deliberately differentiated from narrative artifacts (e.g., narrative-centric, narrative-parallel, narrative-additive) and narrative devices (e.g., metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, hyperbole, alliteration), from both of which various categories of narratives can be derived, such as parallel narrative and literary narrative. Regarding the applicability of news narratives as a consequence of balancing realism literature and fictitious literature in the industrialized press (Underwood, 2008), narrative genres are investigated based on nonfictional logic (Lovato, 2018) and technological availability, while aptly taking in dramatic structures.…”