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Berättelser om verkligheten : från magnetband till mp3

Ragnarsson, Alva LU (2023) DIKK60 20231
Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
Abstract
Swedish public service radio has during its almost 100 years undergone several transformations due to technical, societal and cultural changes. A transformation still in motion can be attributed to the arrival of the internet, the digitalization of the recording, storage and distribution of sound, as well as the fast paced evolution of the global media
landscape. When the mp3-file and the internet enabled the spread of pre-recorded and on-demand podcasts, it simultaneously altered the premises for traditional audio journalism.

This essay examines the digitalization of five Swedish radio documentaries through the lense of narratology and semiotics, by using a qualitative ethnographic method to compare analogue and digital works. When... (More)
Swedish public service radio has during its almost 100 years undergone several transformations due to technical, societal and cultural changes. A transformation still in motion can be attributed to the arrival of the internet, the digitalization of the recording, storage and distribution of sound, as well as the fast paced evolution of the global media
landscape. When the mp3-file and the internet enabled the spread of pre-recorded and on-demand podcasts, it simultaneously altered the premises for traditional audio journalism.

This essay examines the digitalization of five Swedish radio documentaries through the lense of narratology and semiotics, by using a qualitative ethnographic method to compare analogue and digital works. When comparing the narrative components and the use of semiotic signs in the five works from between 1980-2017, the study found evidence that the digitalization of the sound medium may have impacted the way real events and people are
portrayed in radio documentaries. The differences in terms of how auditive semiotic signs are used to portray a story, a storyworld and its characters are also discussed from the perspective of credibility and the ethical dimensions of nonfiction radio. (Less)
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author
Ragnarsson, Alva LU
supervisor
organization
course
DIKK60 20231
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
digitalization, radio, audio-narratology, semiotics, narrative journalism, documentary, sound studies, digitalisering, semiotik, narrativ journalistik, radiodokumentärer, dokumentär
language
Swedish
id
9149172
date added to LUP
2024-02-28 12:11:54
date last changed
2024-02-28 12:11:54
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  abstract     = {{Swedish public service radio has during its almost 100 years undergone several transformations due to technical, societal and cultural changes. A transformation still in motion can be attributed to the arrival of the internet, the digitalization of the recording, storage and distribution of sound, as well as the fast paced evolution of the global media
landscape. When the mp3-file and the internet enabled the spread of pre-recorded and on-demand podcasts, it simultaneously altered the premises for traditional audio journalism.

This essay examines the digitalization of five Swedish radio documentaries through the lense of narratology and semiotics, by using a qualitative ethnographic method to compare analogue and digital works. When comparing the narrative components and the use of semiotic signs in the five works from between 1980-2017, the study found evidence that the digitalization of the sound medium may have impacted the way real events and people are
portrayed in radio documentaries. The differences in terms of how auditive semiotic signs are used to portray a story, a storyworld and its characters are also discussed from the perspective of credibility and the ethical dimensions of nonfiction radio.}},
  author       = {{Ragnarsson, Alva}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Berättelser om verkligheten : från magnetband till mp3}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}