PUBLIC MARKS with tag vbc

Press is dead. Photojournalism is dying. TV is boring. No future? Well, not yet, maybe… Let’s think again and try a few solutions to improve our ways to inform people and communicate...

If Chinese coal is on your mind in the run-up to Copenhagen, check out this quirky, well-made, choose-your-own-adventure-style documentary widget that takes you through the Chinese coal economy at eye-level. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/09/items-of-interest-7.html#ixzz0b5YNmnOc

Ce billet est le troisième– d’une série de 5 – sur l’avenir du photojournalisme. Voir aussi l’introduction (1/5), « Historiquement, les photojournalistes se sont organisés en dehors des rédactions » (2/5), « Quels modèles pour financer et diffuser le photojournalisme ? » (4/5) et la conclusion « Des questions essentielles à résoudre pour cette nouvelle ère du photojournalisme » (5/5).

Interactive narratives, or games that tell a news story in a non-linear way, have become increasingly popular since I was a teenager. Journalists see them as an alternative way to tell a story. Instead of having a person simply react to a dull news story about the price of oil, why not have them interact with a game that positions him or her as an oil tycoon? Games provide an exploratory way for audiences to discover the news for themselves.

This humanistic/current affairs documentary is a very successful example of how interaction can be a tool for immersion in a factual story.