The Frontier between Reality and Fiction in the Contemporary Audio[visual] adaptation: AI, Podcast and Ludism in the Post-Truth Age
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https://doi.org/10.37536/preh.2025.13.2.2689Keywords:
Adaptation, Gamification, Hybridization, Post-Truth, TransmediaAbstract
Reality and fiction are the two sides of a single coin whose stamp in contemporary society begins to vanish because of the post-truth aesthetics’ erosion and the results of the transmedialization and media hybridization processes. This oscillation between truthful and fake finds its obvious manifestations in the audiovisual medium, while the most proliferate and profitable due to the platforms’ explosion. This essay aims to observe the depicted phenomenon in three-type production and its different adaptations to another media or modalities: those in whose AI employ has left a print in the final creation type and its truth aesthetic, the oral creations such as podcast that gave life to a whole popular genre that overwhelms television and streaming and those affected by gamification processes derived from videogame’s influence.
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