Newsgames: Experiential Reality, Ludenic News Reading, Conflict of Purposes and Norms

Year 2022, Issue: 48, 429 - 445, 29.08.2022

Vera Cengiz Sinan Kaya

https://doi.org/10.52642/susbed.1097105

Abstract

Journalism is influenced by the convergence of the diversity of media production due to the development of information and communication technologies. The adoption of participatory culture in production relations and the effectiveness of transmedia storytelling in journalistic forms have also transformed news narratives. In this context, the sectoral convergence of entertainment (hedonistic) and information acquisition (utilitarian) needs has provided an environment for the production of newsgames. This review study aims to discuss newsgames, which journalistic motivations and game motivations reveal in multidisciplinary relationships with the concepts of production and consumption relations, narrative structure, temporality, ethical concerns, ideological doubts and compassion fatigue based on the ludenic theory of news reading. Overlapping goals and conflicting norms coexist in newsgame production environments, a new narrative form for journalism. Newsgame, a new form of narrative for journalism, contains overlapping goals and conflicting norms in production environments. In this sense, despite the innovation that newsgames will bring to journalism and the gains that they can provide to the reader, it has been seen that newsgames have doubts about reality and compassion in research in the field of literature. Despite these doubts, newsgames can turn into an effective way of producing content that combines rigor in content with attractiveness in form by incorporating fun or experiential elements of games into the news narrative and preserving the nature of journalism.

Keywords

Newsgame, Ludenic Theory of News Reading, Transmedia Storytelling, Convergence

Haber Oyunları: Deneyimlenebilir Gerçeklik, Ludenik Haber Okuma, Amaç ve Normların Çatışması

Abstract

Gazetecilik, bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin gelişmesine bağlı olarak medya üretim çeşitliliğinin yakınsaklığından etkilenmektedir. Üretim ilişkilerinin katılımcı kültürü benimsemesi ve transmedya hikaye anlatıcılığının gazetecilik formlarında etkili olması haber anlatısını da dönüştürmüştür. Bu kapsamda eğlence (hazcı) ve bilgi edinme (faydacı) ihtiyaçlarının sektörel yakınsaklığı, haber oyunlarının üretimine ortam sağlamıştır. Bu derleme çalışmanın amacı gazetecilik motivasyonları ile oyun motivasyonlarının disiplinlerarası ilişkiler içerisinde ortaya çıkardığı haber oyunları; ludenik haber okuma teorisi ile temellendirerek üretim ve tüketim ilişkileri, anlatı yapısı, zamansallık, etik kaygılar, ideolojik şüpheler ve merhamet yorgunluğu kavramlarıyla tartışmaktır. Gazetecilik için yeni bir anlatı biçimi olan haber oyun üretim ortamlarında örtüşen amaçlar ve çatışan normlar bir aradadır. Bu anlamda alanyazında yer alan araştırmalarda haber oyunlarının; haberciliğe getireceği yenilik ve okuyucuya sağlayabileceği kazanımların, gerçeklik ve merhamete dair şüpheler ile karşı karşıya kalabileceği görülmüştür. Bu şüphelere rağmen haber oyunları, oyunların eğlenceli ya da deneyimlenebilir unsurlarını haber anlatısına dahil ederek ve gazeteciliğin niteliğini koruyarak, içerikteki titizliği biçimsel çekicilikle birleştiren etkili bir içerik üretim yoluna dönüşebilir.

Keywords

Haber Oyun, Ludenik Haber Okuma Teorisi, Transmedya Hikaye Anlatıcılığı, Yakınsaklık

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