How Can News Be"Gamified":The Practical Logics and Boundary Adjustment of News Gamification in The Digital Era
The profound transformation of the global journalism industry towards digitalization has created new spaces for the evolution of digital news narrative.The emergence of"gamification"as a novel narrative concept increasingly demonstrates the potential to reshape the digital information ecosystem and is forming an innovative trend of news gamification narrative through its deepening integration with the digital journalism industry.This paper,combining an analysis of typical cases in the global news industry,summarizes the practical logic of news gamification aimed at continuously enhancing connectivity and characterized by deep experientialization,opening collaboration,and relational contentization.However,this connection-centered narrative practice may also exacerbate the risks of innovation in news gamification.The paper further reflects on the issues of blurred innovation boundaries brought about by the risks of connectivity,proposing strategies for boundary adjustment such as public emotion moderation for emotionalized narratives,constructive participation moderation for participatory narratives,and narrative norm moderation for community narratives,in order to explore the potential space for news gamification to innovatively reconstruct digital news culture between"gamefulness"and"newsworthiness".
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