RT Journal Article
T1 Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism
A1 Gómez García, Salvador
A1 De la Hera, Teresa
AB The goal of this study is to explore the role of digital games as political actors in digital journalism. The development of digital games designed to frame journalistic messages led to the emergence of newsgames. This trend impacts online mass media outlets’ performance as political actors in democratic polities. In this article, we explore the current relationship between political communication and newsgames by answering the following research question: How do online mass media outlets use newsgames to report, interpret, and critically analyze democratic polities? In this study, an inductive grounded theory approach was used to analyze 29 political newsgames published in 25 mass-media digital outlets across 11 different countries. The findings reveal that mass media outlets employ political newsgames to perform four distinct functions when covering political events: analytical reportage, commentary, critical scrutiny, and representation.
PB Cogitatio
SN 2183–2439
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124409
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124409
LA eng
NO Gómez-García, S., & De la Hera, T. (2023). Games as political actors in digital journalism. Media and Communication, 11(2), 278-290.
NO This article is part of the issue “Political Communication in Times of Spectacularisation: Digital Narratives, Engagement, and Politainment” edited by Salvador Gómez‐García (Complutense University of Madrid), Rocío Zamora (University of Murcia), and Salomé Berrocal (University of Valladolid).
NO Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 dic 2025