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Cinema and youtubers: new audiences, new experiences

Authors

  • Inmaculada Berlanga Fernández Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
  • Laura Fernández-Ramírez Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29019/tsafiqui.v11i15.806

Keywords:

YouTube, youtubers, cinema, post-modernity, digital content, new audiences

Abstract

The new digital media have achieved, along with the democratization of audiovisual consumption, the democratization of film production. As a result, small fictions generated on the internet have emerged and are being presented at film festivals, with many followers and, therefore, with enormous visibility. It can be said that the liquid modernity preached by the sociologist Bauman has reached the cinematographic medium. We propose to study the convergence of the new forms of producing content (YouTubers) with the film industry and to analyze this emerging phenomenon in its context, as a mirror of a postmodern society. The famous YouTubers attract the attention of producers, and at the same time, they get involved in film production and show a revolution of the traditional parameters of cinema: they move it to new terrain, with hyperactive spectators who demand transmedia stories and immersive experiences. With this research, the aim is to make a scientific-humanist approach of a reflexive nature to the subject of study. A qualitative methodology is used, with an exploratory and descriptive character that defines new formats for the creation of audiovisual content; identifies the convergence between cinema and YouTube, and locates the incursions of YouTubers from the Hispanic environment in the film industry. This exploration draws the framework to understand a not insignificant phenomenon whose methods and narratives evidence a future relevance in the production of fiction.

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Author Biographies

Inmaculada Berlanga Fernández, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

Doctor in Philology and in Media Studies. Full Professor accredited by the CNEAI at the International University of La Rioja (Level I). Two six-year periods of research. Visiting Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.  Main Researcher of PROCOMM (Prospective in Multimedia Communication) of UnirResearch. Member of Comunicar Group and Alfamed International Network. 

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=9D7D9W4AAAAJ&hl=es 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0135-624X

https://publons.com/researcher/1722838/inmaculada-berlanga/ 

Laura Fernández-Ramírez, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

International Doctorate in Media Studies and Extraordinary Doctorate Award (UCM). Diploma in editing (ECAM) and Master in Television Direction (IORTVE-UCM). Academic Director of the Master's Degree in Audiovisual Scriptwriting at UNIR, university where she teaches scriptwriting, direction and editing. She has worked as an assistant director in RTVE, assistant director and editor in feature films and as a scriptwriter in TV series. Her line of research is audiovisual narrative and history, particularly of television series and film editing and directing. She has published indexed papers such as "La programación de series internacionales en la televisión generalista española" (Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico, 2020), "Una propuesta metodológica para el análisis histórico de la programación en televisión. El ejemplo de la segunda cadena (1966-1975)" (Espacios, 2020), "El lenguaje rupturista y expresivo del realismo bélico clásico" (Atalante, 2019), "El montaje cinematográfico como herramienta para la revisión histórica. The case of Black Hawk Down" (Historia y Comunicación Social, 2019), "The experience of war on the screen: The landing on Omaha beach of Saving Private Ryan" (Palabra Clave, 2015) and "Los telediarios franquistas. Una investigación sobre las fuentes" (Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 2014). She has been part of two competitive research projects (Erasmus+ and MINECO).

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4196-9136

https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=DYR8KFAAAAAJ&hl=es&authuser=1

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2020-12-01

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Berlanga Fernández, I., & Fernández-Ramírez, L. (2020). Cinema and youtubers: new audiences, new experiences . Tsafiqui, 11(15), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.29019/tsafiqui.v11i15.806