Class Transmedia and Hybrid Narratives

At the end of this curricular unit - Transmedia and Hybrid Narratives - it is intended to enable students with skills within the scope of the latest practices regarding the production of journalistic information, informative contents and narratives emerging from reality and with news value, both in the web environment and in the context of publications, reflecting the informative production of the current media ecosystem, which is also hybrid and non-linear. Examples: webdocumentaries, multimedia and hypermedia narratives, virtual and immersive reality, gamification, etc

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1. Once upon a time: what is storytelling? 1.1 The elements of storytelling 1.2 From oral tradition to the hero's journey: "mythical" structures of storytelling 2. Literature and Journalism 2.1. The New Journalism and Narrative Journalism: the reportage and the book reportage 2.2. 2.2. Travel Literature 3. Audiovisual narratives: the documentary film and the video 3.1 Introduction to documentary: subgenres and modes of representation 3.2 The creative "treatment" of reality: the different schools of thought about documentary and the hybrids (post-doc) 3.4 Audiovisual content: video, archive and memory 4. Web, Transmedia and hybridization of genres Convergence culture, transmedia narrative and journalism 4.2. 4.2. The webdocumentary and non-linear narrative 4.3. how to write for online? Title, lead, news body, hyperlinks, verification 4.4. The multimedia and transmedia script 4.5. The multimedia reportage, videojournalism and mini-docs (online)

The methodology is a continuous assessment model and applying 2 practices of innovative methodologies (IM), involving: theoretical exposition of concepts (Professor and students in the enunciation of previous research tasks and presentations in class); watching videos/ films and critical analysis; analysis of websites and journalistic publications; open classes with experts; practical exercises to be carried out inside and outside the classroom. Assessment will be mixed, with the final assignment due on the last day of classes, and will be divided into specific moments, all of which are compulsory:  Participation and involvement in class (20%);  (MI) Frankenstein Journalism Conference (20%);  (MI) Final collaborative assignment: creation of a transmedia journalistic narrative, published on an online platform incorporated into #infomedia. The work will have a relationship with civil society (60%) (Note: work progress: 20% + class presentation 20% + final: 20%).  

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