Jogos no jornalismo: uma análise da capacidade informativa dos newsgames a partir do “The Uber Game”

Abstract

This capstone project has as its theme the study of the newsgames as a digital journalism phenomenon that has emerged not only as a way of attracting new readers to media outlets, but also as a way of complementing journalistic products with more interactive narratives. This work is based on the premise that newsgames can be useful tools for journalism, especially in terms of their ability to engage readers with stories, based on greater interaction between fact and reader. Thus, the methodological framework of this work is Case Study, selecting The Uber Game, developed by the Financial Times in 2017, as the empirical object. The main objective of the work is to analyze how this newsgame is configured as a resource that helps the multimedia report “Uber: the uncomfortable view from the driving seat” in the narrative construction of the news fact. It is based on the understanding that it complements the information reported in the report and enables a different interaction between content and reader compared to written information, placing the player/reader at the center of the narrative by enabling them to make decisions as a driver of the platform while playing. The work also includes, in its analysis stage, an investigation into how the game manages to adapt principles of journalistic language to fulfill its informative function, as well as a brief mapping of the players' perception after the game. In this way, it can be concluded that the game manages to expand the narrative of the report through simulation, contributing to an improved perception and better understanding of the facts by readers.