Κοινωνική Σημειωτική & Νεότερη Τεχνολογία: η μελέτη περίπτωσης του Διαδραστικού Ντοκιμαντέρ «Η δεύτερη ευκαιρία»

Abstract

This paper focuses on the presentation of a social narrative entitled "The second chance", an interactive documentary of the series "Remarkable people" (2011 - 2019) by Menelaos Karamagiolis. The interactive documentary shows the effort of Rokas, a former prisoner in the Special Youth Detention Center of Avlona Greece, on his trajectory to claim a second chance; a chance of studies and freedom. The signifiers of the audiovisual messages are linked to the hero's ideological and psychological states and turn the documentary into a "weapon" for asserting his freedom, but at the same time they serve the purpose of projecting an important message and a micro-circumstance and social circumstance: the education in prison. After studying the interactive path of the interactor, we will move on to a brief analysis of the mainly narrative structure of the interactive documentary, following the genetic path of Greimas, as presented by Lagopoulos and Boklund-Lagopoulou (2016). Through isotopies we move from a micro-perception of communication to a macro-perception that moves outside the boundaries of the text and relates to social semiotics; The documentary follows the triptych "prison - education - opportunities" and addresses the issue of the second chance that a prisoner can have when he makes good use of the resources given to him through school.

Keywords

• interactive documentary, greimas, interactive narrative, prisons, social semiotics