The rise of audiovisual consumed on smartphones: direct reflexes in the newsroom

Abstract

The articulation between two upward movements - the consumption of audiovisual content and the access to the Internet via mobile devices - motivated the present investigation, whose analysis focuses on transformations in the management and productive process of the serie of hypermedia reports called TAB, published by the portal Uol. Through interviews with the team and systematized analysis of editions published between October 2014 and October 2018 - this is, therefore, a longitudinal study - it was concluded that the production focused on the mobile has considerably transformed the work of reporters and designers, to the point that it is necessary to acquire new technical skills, many of them aimed at the audiovisual sector, for the production of aesthetically appropriate reports on the increasingly important access in mobile devices.