Estudos Narrativos Mediáticos

Overview & Synopsis

This book is the result of the transformation of a report on the disciplinary field of Narrative Media Studies, presented for the Aggregation Tests in Communication Sciences in May 2023, and was written for postgraduate students and researchers in Communication Sciences. It is therefore intended to be a support manual for anyone who wants to explore this theoretical-methodological framework and adapt it to the study of media and communication. It is structured in three articulated parts, the sequence of which follows a logic of deepening and specifying the issues under study. The first part - Narrative Media Studies: framing - is organised into three chapters and provides a theoretical framework for the issues raised by Narrative Media Studies, giving readers an overview of the disciplinary field. Following this epistemological reflection, the second part - Narrative and media - explores the conceptual framework of Narrative Media Studies, seeking as clear a definition as possible of some key concepts: media narrative, narrative mediation and mediality, remediation, inter- and transmediality, etc. It therefore suggests a reflection and consequent systematisation on the relationship between narrative and the media, which is not unrelated to the progressive broadening of Narrative Studies and the consequent conceptual readjustment that technological evolution requires. Within the vast field of Communication Sciences, journalism, which is studied in the third and final part - Narrative and Journalism. The aim is to problematise journalistic narratives within the epistemological framework of Narrative Media Studies.