peoples attention. 106 Even if people are aware of it, they have a difficult time comprehending the size of the issue. By bringing up characters that seem very sympathetic and normal, the author makes the story look more urgent and compelling. Fishermen Yanto and Loresto for example, from the Philippines: C. Like Yanto, Loresto was wearing a sleeveless jersey with “MARINES” printed across the front and a section of mesh between the chest and waistline, uniforms for the world’s most exotic basketball team. A Game of Shark and Minnow D. In bad weather they [the fishermen] gather in the communications room on the second floor and sing karaoke. (They were all pretty good but Yanto stood out. He nailed George Michael’s Careless Whisperer, down to the vividly emotional hand gestures.107
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notion of transportation comes from social psychology and is the process that makes consumers of media lose the notion of time and space because they are caught up in the narrative. The first ones to conduct major research in that field were Melanie Green and Timothy Brock. They believed that belief-change is something that can occur by exposing people to narrative. Because belief-change is a concept that lies at a core of digital new journalism, the central question in this thesis was the way that narrative and multimedia work together to achieve transportation theory. These selected techniques are a combination of observations from various sources. For a narrative analysis there is a lot of literature available because such an analysis has been employed many times before, most importantly following the method of Gérard Genette. However, some contemporary writings have been added: drawing onto Agnieszka Lyons’ observation on how the strategic use of deixis facilitates transportation by creating a story world, and the analysis of characterisation is based on Daniel Lehman’s Reading Over the Edge in which he explains why characters in non-fiction are on a cognitive level more important than in fiction. However, an analysis into transportation in digital new journalism has not been conducted many times before. Therefore, the research of most importantly Susan Jacobson on multimedia171, Nora Bernig on early examples of literary
