Newsgames in Ecuador

Authors

  • Isidro Marín Gutiérrez Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador)
  • Mónica Hinojosa Becerra Universidad Nacional de Loja (Ecuador)
  • Javier Ruiz San Miguel Universidad de Málaga (España)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24265/cian.2018.n8.06

Keywords:

Newsgames, Serious Games, Videogame, Digital Journalism, Ecuador

Abstract

Video games have been created on political and social issues since the beginning of this medium. In recent years, many computer developers are creating and launching games quickly in response to current events. These games are known as “newsgames”. Increasingly the number of Internet users increases using the network to consume news. Newsgames could become an important part of how people understand current events and could be an important and expressive genre of video games. Digital journalism is making the media look for new ways to tell news and interact with their audience. A journalist should use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and implement new journalistic formats. In Ecuador this process takes time to boot although some media are putting these formats into practice as is the case of newsgames. Our work studies the newsgames that are being produced in Ecuador.

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Author Biographies

  • Isidro Marín Gutiérrez, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador)

    PhD in Social Anthropology and degree in political science and sociology from the University of Granada (Spain). Main Docenteinvestigador at the Universidad tecnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador). Member of the Technical Council of the magazine Communication and member of the research group E6.

  • Mónica Hinojosa Becerra, Universidad Nacional de Loja (Ecuador)

    PhD and degree in Audiovisual communication University of Málaga (Spain). Has been a teacher in this House of studies as well as at the University of the Americas and in The University of Especialidades Espiritu Santo (Ecuador). Has Been coordinator of the career of Social Communication and Dean Of the Faculty of Education, the art and communication of the National University of Loja (Ecuador).

  • Javier Ruiz San Miguel, Universidad de Málaga (España)

    PhD in Information sciences and degree in Audiovisual Communication and publicity by the university
    Of the Basque Country (Spain). Professor of communication Audiovisual and publicity at the faculty of Sciences of the Communication from the University of Málaga (Spain), where He is the director of the research group "the productive process Of the still image as a mass communication phenomenon "
    (SEJ 431) and is academic coordinator of the Master in creation Audiovisual and Performing Arts.

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2018-11-28

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Marín Gutiérrez, I., Hinojosa Becerra, M., & Ruiz San Miguel, J. (2018). Newsgames in Ecuador. Correspondences & Analysis, 8, 121-145. https://doi.org/10.24265/cian.2018.n8.06
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