Understanding Transmedia Music on YouTube through Disney Storytelling

Transmedia storytelling has been integrated into contemporary society through social media, where influencers have enabled the building of worlds.Within this environment of humaninteraction, fiction and converging social realities have become an essential tool to tell stories. On YouTube, storytelli...

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Autores: Vizcaíno Verdú, Arantxa, Aguaded, José Ignacio, Contreras Pulido, Paloma
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/19690
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19690
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Transmedia music
Music storytelling
Musicking
Transmedia storytelling
Transmedia
YouTube
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Sumario:Transmedia storytelling has been integrated into contemporary society through social media, where influencers have enabled the building of worlds.Within this environment of humaninteraction, fiction and converging social realities have become an essential tool to tell stories. On YouTube, storytelling has expanded to music, where cover videos take on great relevance. The aim of this study is to understand the transmedia music phenomenon due to the impact of music on the platform. To this end, we applied a methodology that stemmed from Grounded Theory principles in the analysis of 300 Disney animation song covers in three stages: (1) deductive and inductive codebook development; (2) social network analysis; and (3) statistical test. The results showed that youtubers highlight specific audiovisual codes from the film and cultural industries. Furthermore, we observed these productions often display configurations that expand the original story through performance, location, costumes, make-up, among others. We argue that, on the digital sphere, a sustainable transmedia music paradigm is developing, where performers construct more meaningful and valuable stories.