New Narratives in the Age of Visualization

Abstract

Formal and technological innovation has led to the appearance of novel journalistic narrative forms, and therefore media focus its efforts on the development of new and innovative ways to present, produce and tell the information. In this regard, and during the last years, the society has attended to the arrival of new journalistic narrative forms as the result of the diverse and manifold possibilities opened by the novel technological features, such as Virtual Reality and 360-degree video, interactive documentary or WebDoc, and gamification of journalistic content. In fact, this article reviews the main particularities of these three features and its use as journalistic tools by analysing different successful experiences. These innovations prove that the 2010s have been a period of experimentation in which news outlets and professionals have tried to go further with multimedia narratives, developing new ways to engage users through a more visual, interactive, gamified and immersive content.