Infographics on-line: intermedia narrative

Abstract

The journalism on-line comes to develop an own language, inside a scenery in whom the speed in the advancement of the technique is conjugated by the search by the best way of informing. In this sense, the hypermedia is a basic factor, since it provides the new forms of production and presentation of the information. The infographics, which, in the form, joins verbal and visual information to serve of support for the piece of news, in the on-line starts to acquire another statute. Develop like independent narrative, and, in the best examples up to the moment, like those of the Clarín.com, it is conjugated by the great report, in the calls “ special multimedia ”. In this article, there is proposed a conception of the digital information like narrative intermedia, consequence of the fusion conceptual of different means, remodelled by the characteristics of the support.