Visual media, such as videos and pictures, turn names on a page into animated characters. Multimedia humanizes the victim, demanding sympathy from the reader. It creates a more palpable villain, which elicits anger and frustration from the audience. A traditional article faces the struggle of creating a character through words exclusively, without turning the article into only character development. Moreover, the multimedia aspects of “Two Gunshots on a Summer Night” engage the reader, allowing them to create their own questions and answers. This article calls for the reader to become a sleuth, using the information presented to them to draw their conclusions. The Atlantic article does not engage the reader in this way; instead it presents facts and opinions without giving the reader a chance to come to his own conclusions. Traditional articles fail to immerse the reader in the story, but multimodal articles bring the story to life, making reading them more informative and
Visual media, such as videos and pictures, turn names on a page into animated characters. Multimedia humanizes the victim, demanding sympathy from the reader. It creates a more palpable villain, which elicits anger and frustration from the audience. A traditional article faces the struggle of creating a character through words exclusively, without turning the article into only character development. Moreover, the multimedia aspects of “Two Gunshots on a Summer Night” engage the reader, allowing them to create their own questions and answers. This article calls for the reader to become a sleuth, using the information presented to them to draw their conclusions. The Atlantic article does not engage the reader in this way; instead it presents facts and opinions without giving the reader a chance to come to his own conclusions. Traditional articles fail to immerse the reader in the story, but multimodal articles bring the story to life, making reading them more informative and