Algorithm and Data News as the future of imagetic transmedia journalism

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https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1229

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Transmedia Journalism, Data Journalism, Media Ecology, Photography

Abstract

Currently, studies in communication and especially journalism are necessary, even a challenge. This is justified by the dynamism of contemporary media ecosystem, which corresponds to the media, emerging technologies and societies, increasingly participant in communication processes. In fact, these transformations have changed not only the processes but also the compositions of the professional groups, which work in the construction of contemporary news, now multi-language and designed to devices previously adopted, such as mobile phones and tablets. Like the data journalism, which considers the phenomenon of big data and information available in the cloud, despite to not stand out so important when disguised between contents. The crescent participation of professionals in the sciences and engineering is explained to work with these files and binary scenarios, leading to think about selection, cleaning, understanding and build public space from digital concepts of multiplatform. In this study, it was adopted some methodological procedures which include bibliographies research, as fundamental research to understand the process of evolution and practice of journalism comprising the fundamental data to develop the proposal initially raised. With the conclusion of this study, we can understand the Transmedia Journalism as perfect language to develop content based in Big Data, Algorithms for a current data journalism. This is the proposal offered in the paper.

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Author Biographies

Denis Renó, Paulista State University

Journalist and photojournalist, Doctor in Social Communication from the Methodist University of São Paulo (Brazil), he has developed post-doctorate on Transmedia Journalism by the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and post-doctorate on Interactive Interfaces for mobile devices by the University of Aveiro ( Portugal). He is a professor of the Journalism Program of the Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication of the State University Paulista - UNESP (Brazil), where he is also coordinator of the master's program and professor of the postgraduate program in Media and Technology. In addition, he is an honorary professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and visiting professor at the National University of Rosario (Argentina) and the Technical University of Loja - UTPL (Ecuador).

In his professional career, in addition to having acted in television and internet, he was the producer and director of 11 documentaries, some of them classified in international festivals. Among his works, the documentary Tradições paulistas, cadê? (2003), classified in the 18th Paulista Audiovisual Show (Brazil), the Golosina Visual Festival (Mexico) and the Viaxes na Lusofonia Festival (Spain). Among the experimental productions, the interactive documentary Bogotá Atómica (2009) and the transmedia documentary Galego-Portuguese (2013) stand out.

As a researcher, he is the author of four books: Interactive documentary cinema and linguagens audiovisuais participativas (2011), Documentário em novas fabrics (2012), Transmedia journalism (2012) and Discussões sobre a Nova Ecologia dos Meios (2013), besides author of 50 book chapters and more than 100 academic articles in journals indexed in Brazil or in international indexes.

Currently, he is Academic Director of the Latin American Chair of Transmedia Narrative and member of the Media Ecology Association (USA), as well as being coordinator of MOBILAB - Laboratory of Studies on New Narratives and Mobile Devices. The laboratory is financed by development agencies in Brazil.

Luciana Renó, University of São Paulo

She is Electrical Engineer from the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU (Brazil), Ph.D. in Communication from the School of Journalism II of the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), where she has developed research on Data Journalism and transmedia narrative. Currently, she is developing postdoctoral research on data journalism at the University of São Paulo - USP (Brazil).

She was professor of degree programs in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, Journalism and Social Communication, the latter two with the subjects Quantitative Research Methods and Transmedia Narrative. Currently, she is visiting professor at the State University of Milagro (Ecuador) and at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja - UTPL (Ecuador), specifically in the field of data journalism.

As a researcher, she is the author of book chapters published in Portugal, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, as well as editing a work published in Colombia on the Ecology of Media and Citizenship. She is also the author of articles published in magazines in Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Bolivia, Poland and Portugal. Among his texts, a study on Data Journalism and Transmedia Narrative, the subject of his doctoral thesis, stands out.

As a researcher, she is a member of the Latin American Chair of Transmedia Narrative and researcher of MOBILAB - Laboratory of Studies on New Narratives and Mobile Devices.

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Published

2017-11-24

How to Cite

Renó, D. ., & Renó, L. (2017). Algorithm and Data News as the future of imagetic transmedia journalism. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, (72), 1468–1482. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1229

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