Science and Factual Media.

Nairobi, Kenya — In both the Kibera and Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, life is hard and perilous. The slums are among Africa's largest. Depending on the number people displaced from rural areas by civil strife, disease, and grinding poverty, Kibera can rank among the world’s largest slums. Up to two million people live in challenging conditions.

Mothers walk children to school through streets littered with garbage and filled with violence. Regardless, children are also expected to venture out on their own to help gather the water and fuel needed for daily existence. (continued, download to read more)

Nairobi, Kenya— Based on forensics analysis provided by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), police officials in Kenya now say that a recent explosion in downtown Nairobi shopping mall, Sunday, was an act of terrorism. Originally thought to be an electrical explosion, officials now say a fertilizer-based bomb killed one person and injured 37 others. (continued, download to read more)

[Author's note: In April 2013, along with a half-dozen other journalists and writers from around the world, I was allowed access to photograph inside the media-restricted Fukushima exclusion zone. As a form of protest, a local official (identified and described below) unlocked gates to the contaminated zone then off limits. Accompanied by a translator, I was then allowed to take photos of the instrumentation used to monitor radiation levels, contaminated soil removal facilities, and other sites. I was in the zone for two hours, — a time calculated to offer a reasonably safe level of radiation exposure.  — K. Lee Lerner]

NAGADORO, Japan — Following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) initially reported the safe scram — execution of a nuclear plant’s emergency reactor shutdown plan — of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi plant located about 150 miles north of Tokyo. (continued… download to read more)

Recommended citation: Gifreu-Castells, A. (2017). Estrategias participativas y colaborativas en la narrativa factual (Ed. y Coord.). Obra Digital, 12-1. Vic: Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya. ISSN: 2014-5039. 

---------------- ABSTRACT ESP: La narrativa factual es aquella que parte de una supuesta veracidad referencial en relación a sus historias. Dentro de este vasto campo de lo real, este monográfico se propone el estudio de tres formas de expresión específicas: la audiovisual, interactiva y transmedia. Durante los últimos años, cada una de estas formas de expresión ha desarrollado unas estrategias y mecanismos propios para incentivar la colaboración, participación e involucración de las audiencias. Ya sea a partir de publicidad, programas comunitarios, proyectos participativos o plataformas que empoderan a los usuarios, las posibilidades que nos brindan estos proyectos fácticos parecen no acabarse y reinventarse en cada nueva forma de expresión. En este monográfico, analizaremos como estas tres formas han incidido en el ámbito de la no ficción a partir de la selección de algunos géneros y formatos clave propios como el documental, el periodismo, el museo o el ensayo.Febrero-Agosto.

---------------- ABSTRACT ENG:  Over recent years, each of these forms of expression has developed its own strategies and mechanisms to encourage collaboration, participation and involvement of audiences. Whether through advertising, community programs, participative projects or platforms that empower users, the possibilities of these factual projects seem to go on and on, being reinvented in each new form of expression. In this paper, we analyze how these three forms have influenced the field of non-fiction, on the basis of a selection of key genres and formats such as documentaries, journalism, museums and essays.

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- Editorial: Estrategias participativas y colaborativas en la narrativa factual por Arnau Gifreu-Castells.

- Cine colaborativo, entre los discursos, la experimentación y el control: metodologías participativas en ficción y no-ficción por Antoni Roig Telo.

- Producción, distribución y exhibición del cine desde una nueva mirada: la web social por Yasmín Magna Sayán Casquino.

- Re-construcciones visuales de la memoria: la interpretación crítica del imaginario colectivo a través del webdocumental por Roberto Arnau Roselló.

- El documental social participativo: el protagonista como sujeto de la historia por
Jacobo Sucari.

- La narrativa imagética en el periodismo transmedia de formato largo: participación y navegación cognitiva por Denis Renó y Luciana Renó.

- La narrativa hipermedia en el museo. El presente del futuro por Borja Barinaga López, Isidro Moreno Sánchez y Andrés Adolfo Navarro Newball.

- Activismo Transmedia. Narrativas de participación para el cambio social. Entre la comunicación creativa y el media art por Pedro Ortuño Mengual y Virginia Villaplana Ruiz.

This article discusses the working lives of individuals working in the British independent television production sector. It focuses on the material reality of their individualised, precarious working environment, investigating the disjuncture between the precarious, insecure nature of creative labour within this industry, which engenders stress and anxiety, and the intense emotional pleasure associated with such work. While the tension between 'pleasure' and 'pain' within creative occupations has been well documented (e.g. , this article argues that in order to fully understand the subjective responses to creative work we need to look beyond the dominant post-Foucauldian approach in this field and attempt to understand cultural work as a site for moral work .