ABSTRACT

In recent years, digital platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and ResearchGate have broadened the range of genres used in specialised knowledge dissemination. This paper focuses on the Video Abstract (VA), a four-to-five-minute presentation of what lies behind the production of a specific research article (RA). This emergent genre transcends the confines of the RA allowing researchers to reinterpret their research making use of multiple information flows thanks to the meaning-making affordances created by the videotrack, the soundtrack and, above all, their simultaneous interplay. The extent to which researchers make full use of these affordances is examined in relation to the generic structure of a small specialised video corpus of medical VAs published in ten international journals. The study shows that the VA tends to replicate the generic structure typical of the RA but does so by using different subgenres which address a wider audience than that of the RA.

摘要

近年来，YouTube、Twitter 和 ResearchGate 等数字平台拓宽了专业知识传播的流派范围。本文重点介绍视频摘要 (VA)，这是一个 4 到 5 分钟的演示，介绍了特定研究文章 (RA) 的制作背后的原因。这种新兴的流派超越了 RA 的范围，使研究人员能够利用多个信息流重新解释他们的研究，这要归功于视频轨道、配乐以及最重要的是它们的同时相互作用所创造的意义启示。研究人员充分利用这些可供性的程度与在十种国际期刊上发表的医学 VA 的小型专业视频语料库的通用结构有关。