Love letters to strangers
What:
Talk
Part of:
When:
2:00 PM, Tuesday 14 Aug 2018
(1 hour 15 minutes)
Where:
Pavillon J.-A. DeSève UQAM -
DS-1545
How:
Discussion:
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Mind the gap between digital journalism and eletronic literature. In the
digital age, how to write about the search for love? Using fiction or
non fiction? The question is that a new epistolary literature is being
written in cell phones, e-mails, apps and dating sites. How different is
it in comparison with the old love letters people used to write to
their soulmates? In a mix of netnography, journalism and digital
storytelling, me and other 25 brazilian researchers infiltrated
ourselves into this universe for the last five years. The idea was not
to publish a tradicional print work for newspapers or a linear story. We
created avatars, made hiperlinked articles describing each site or app
we visited and also wrote field journals about our experience. It is an
experience of multimedia storytelling whose original question, the
search of a soulmate using the internet to extend our chances in the
virtual world, work as a metaphor for the journalism chances to find
unprecedented paths exploring new narrative strategies in digital media.
It also highlingts a change in the reader's position, who doesn't want
to wait anymore to watch the development of the stories by the authors
and want to find his own path, make new relationships or join new social
groups. And, with this, construct new stories.