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Session 5Genres and Audiences of Cultural Information  (Chair: Helle Kannik Haastrup) Friday November 23, 14.30-16.0017 New Genres and Formats of Cultural Journalism in the Digital Land-scape  Dora Santos-SilvaThe concepts of “genre” and “format” are well rooted in both academic research and journalistic routines. However, the study of this field beyond its already well-known traditional classifi-cations is little explored, particularly in a con-ceptual framework guided by new approaches such as information deliveries, hybridism, transmedia and innovation in journalism, or in the context of multimodal and multimedia methodological analyses (Liestol & Morrison, 2016). In the new digital ecosystem, these traditional units of classification need a new approach and mapping if we consi-der live-tweeting, 360º documentaries or a simple written news piece with various types of hyperlinks. The growing transformation of the news pieces in what Steen Steensen defines as a family of genres that share a “literary, intimate and adventurous discourse” (2011, p. 50) also blurs the boundaries between opinion and information; the increasing heter-ogeneity of who has the authority to arbiter the cultural taste blurs the boundaries between cultural critique and reviews (Kristensen and From, 2015).   Considering that cultural journalism is a specialized field with historical specificities regarding its editorial model, this paper aims to identify new genres and formats of cultural journalism, its prevalence and main editorial characte-ristics.  Three research questions are addressed: 1) which genres and formats are present in contemporary cultural jour-nalism in a digital environment; 2) which are the main characteristics in an editorial and information delivery model contexts; 3) which of them can we consider patterns of contemporary cultural coverage.  To address these questions, we conducted a content analysis of the culture and arts sections of two major media brands innovating in a digital environment – New York Times (USA) and The Guardian (UK) – considering a construc-ted week between October 2017 and April 2018   and a multimodal analysis of the coverage of an emblematic cultural event. Preliminary results will be presented.ReferencesKristensen, Nete Nørgaard, and Unni From. 2015. “From Ivory Tower to Cross-Media Per-sonas.” Journalism Practice 9 (6). Taylor & Francis: 853–71. doi:10.1080/17512786.2015.1051370.Liestol, G.; Morrison, A. (2016). Genre Innovation – a Prologue. The Journal of Media Innovations 3.2, 1-3.Steensen, S. (2011). The Featurization of Journalism. Nordicom Review, 32(2), 49–61.Biographical notesDora Santos-Silva is an Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities. PhD in Digital Media (UT Austin | Portugal CoLab) with the dissertation “Cultural Journalism in a Digi-tal Environment – New Models, Practices and Possibilities”. Researcher at iNOVA Media Lab (ICNOVA) in the areas of media innovation, cultural journalism and creative industries. Coordinator of DALI – Digital Media Initiative and of the Observatory of Innovation in Media and Creative Industries.NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanitiesdorasantossilva@fcsh.unl.pt 

New genres and formats of cultural journalism in the digital landscape

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New genres and formats of cultural journalism in the digital landscape

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