The Soundslide Report

Martin Engebretsen

doi:10.2478/nor-2014-0007

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The Soundslide Report

Nordicom Review

Volume 35 (2014): Issue 1 (June 2014)

By: Martin Engebretsen

Open Access

|Jun 2014

Abstract

The audio slideshow - or soundslide report - represents a new format for journalistic reporting on online news sites. It is not very widely used, but it has certain discursive and aesthetic potentials indicating that it could contribute substantially to the ecology of journalistic genres. The article offers an illustration and discussion of these potentials, asking how the format communicates and how it affects journalism in general. Starting out with a close reading of a sample text and a discussion of the format’s position in a network of genres, the article concludes that the soundslide report belongs to a new wave of ”aesthetic journalism”, where journalism and art intersect

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Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108

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Language: English

Page range: 99 - 113

Published on: Jun 6, 2014

Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

aesthetic journalism,

genre studies,

multimodality,

visual culture,

digital communication,

social semiotics

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Communication science,

Public and political communication,

Mass communication

© 2014 Martin Engebretsen, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Volume 35 (2014): Issue 1 (June 2014)