Third International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

Abstract

Media companies, independent digital filmmakers, and grass-roots organizations explore multimedia and transmedia as strong narrative forms. Colombians find in those resources the opportunity to express their views of armed conflict, to report war actions, and to build historic memories in a time period of peace agreement, transition, and post-conflict. This report delves into Proyecto Víctimas (Victims project), Les voy a contar la historia (I will tell you the story) and El Naya (The Naya), three experiences of multimedia and transmedia storytelling published in 2013 that show journalists’, independent filmmakers’, and civilians’ perspectives about armed conflict in Colombia, in particular resultant on forced migration. Although those media projects based on real events, they have dissimilar narrating ways: a multimedia package shows the factual journalistic perspective, a transmedia project presents stories mediated by music and artistic interventions, and a transmedia experience mix fictional and non-fictional content to expose the harshness of the conflict through cultural beliefs of the Colombian indigenous people. This study applies narratology as a methodology for the analysis of digital content. The result suggests that digital environment offers several possibilities for meaningful communication and provide sense to political realities of the country. This sensible approach to violence and forced migration explores new narrative forms to reports events. Its novel structures show the normalization of violence, the victimization, and the acts of resilience (atypical stereotypes) on the part of participants.