From news to cards: a case study on rewriting and multimodality
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2025.e104250Keywords:
Rewriting, Multimodality, Digital environment, Card, Scientific dissemination, NewsAbstract
This paper presents the result of research that investigated the process of rewriting a scientific news article (produced for a university website) into cards published on the Instagram profile of the same institution, bearing in mind that those texts have to undergo multimodal reshaping as one genre is transposed from one locus to another. Although the research has a broader scope and includes other analyses, this article focuses exclusively on the rewriting process. The corpus consisted of selected news stories and a number of derivative cards. Analysis procedures consisted of 1) observing the selected news item’s production conditions and generic characteristics; 2) observing the set of cards’ production conditions, generic characteristics, and multimodal elements; 3) showing the differences found in the news item-to-card transition, describing the rewriting process involved in producing those cards. Analysis of the corpus used in this study showed that multimodality plays a fundamental role in this process of rewriting, as it makes it possible to combine and integrate different modes of representation, expanding the communicative potential of texts and enriching their expressiveness. It also showed that news-into-card rewriting did not factor in key pieces of information, which could have hindered readers’ comprehension. Such transposition, as it occurred, led to loss of information that would have been relevant to readers’ comprehension. This result corroborates the importance of considering multimodal elements in card production, as well as of respecting generic characteristics and original production conditions of both source and target texts.
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