A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Remixing opinions: Video quotations and stances in video press reviews
Authors: Johansson Marjut
Publication year: 2013
Journal: Recherches en communication
Number in series: 39
Issue: 39
ISSN: 1370-0480
Web address : http://sites.uclouvain.be/rec/index.php/rec/index
In this paper, the main aim is to analyse digital press videos that are composed of several video quotations. The media sources of these quotations are different, but they are intertextually linked as they contain opinions about the same political events. The quoted persons express their opinions about political events, that is, they contain evaluative stances. The video quotations are edited into a new media story. While it is based on selection of journalistic content and interpretation of media material, the digital review has novel characteristics that make it a transformed and hybrid genre. In the cases analysed, there is no explicit journalistic voice to comment on the quoted material nor the quoted persons. The origin of the quoted situation is not identified in every case. In this sense, the digital press review does not fulfil the exigencies of reliability of information. The journalistic stance consists of composing a new story that relies on the viewers’ capacity to recognize the genre’s similarity with videos in the social media and therefore to read through quoted material and conclude the meaning of the news information on their own.