Research On Narrative Characteristics Of Newsgame

The newsgame is also known as "Newsgame",which means a form of news content that combines news and games.Domestic scholars have included it in interactive news narratives,arguing that it follows the principles of journalism to tell news stories.However,due to the existence of game elements,there is a lot of controversy about the nature of newsgames: some scholars believe that it is a game,and some scholars believe that its essence is news.It is precisely because the game as a means of expression of newsgames affects the objectivity,factuality and recentness of news narrative and expression to a certain extent,so this debate will be made.Because newsgames are a form of news narrative,and news narrative belongs to narratology,narratology has a broader scope of research,including both news as a documentary text and games belonging to fictional texts.Researching the narrative features of newsgames under the domain,exploring whether game elements affect the news narrative part of newsgames,to determine the narrative attributes of newsgames,can provide some support for resolving disputes.Therefore,this study follows the narratological research path,constructs a research framework based on the narrative concept proposed by James Ferren,and studies the narrative features of newsgames from the narrator,narrative structure,narrative discourse and narrative acceptance.It mainly adopts research methods of literature analysis,interviews,case analysis and participatory observation.The study found that from the development of newsgames and the evolution of definitions,it can be seen that the characteristics of the news reflected in the concept are greater than the characteristics of the game.From the current research progress of newsgames,scholars have summarized the documentary bias of newsgames from the perspective of semiotics,and believe that newsgames are one of the achievements of the integration of culture to change journalism.There are similarities between the characteristics of news narrative and the characteristics of game narrative in the context of Internet,but there are still obvious differences.From the narrative of newsgames,the narrator is a collection of newsgame producers and newsgame users.The duality of his identity reflects the fact that the status of the recipient changes and participates in the news narrative in today's online news.When making newsgames,newsgame producers follow the principle of journalism and use the "six elements" of the news in order to expand News communication;the recipients of newsgames,like the narrative recipients of today's news,no longer passively accept narratives,but participate in narratives through interaction.From the narrative structure of newsgames,its geography space mainly restores the truth through words and selects through interaction.In addition,space not only carries the role of news stories and narrative scenes,but also spatial relationships can represent time,arrange narrative structures,and even promote the narrative process of the entire newsgame.The narrative mode of newsgames conforms to the diamond-type narrative mode of news in the context of new media.The narrative logic is similar to news,but because the existence of game elements cannot constitute a composite sequence,it can only constitute the narrative logic of "event ? basic sequence ? story".From the narrative discourse of newsgames,the narrative voice of newsgames has two situations: the absence of the producer's voice and the voice of the producer and the user.The narrative perspective of newsgames is also divided into two situations: the omnipotent perspective of newsgame producers and the perspective of the user's limited knowledge.Newsgames can report on recent facts,mainly using non-linear narratives and synchronic narratives.And the speed of narrative of different types of newsgames is different;the frequency of narrative mainly includes repetitive narrative and comprehensive narrative.From the narrative acceptance of newsgames,users are both narrators and narrative recipients.The shallowness and low immersion in the acceptance of traditional news narratives have turned into deep and high immersion in the narrative acceptance of newsgames.Users interact to make newsgames produce new facts that match the news attributes.With the advancement of information communication technology,the narrative acceptance of newsgames will gradually become more dependent on the media,but the narrative acceptance of newsgames is expected to have individual exploration consciousness and critical consciousness.Through the research and elaboration of this article,the above narrative features of newsgames are more in line with the characteristics of news narrative,so it has the attribution of news.