Characterization of Fictional Web Series: Colombia as a Case Study

Diego Fernando Montoya Bermudez; María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel

doi:10.5294/pacla.2025.28.3.4

Characterization of Fictional Web Series: Colombia as a Case Study

Título traducido de la contribución: Caracterización de las series web de ficción: Colombia como caso de estudio

Diego Fernando Montoya Bermudez, María Teresa Soto-Sanfiel

Departamento de Comunicación y Lenguaje

National University of Singapore

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En la presente investigación exploratoria y descriptiva, se caracterizan las series web a partir del caso de Colombia, donde estos productos se promueven mediante normas, programas de financiación y festivales y los crean industrias audiovisuales, centros educativos, organismos gubernamentales y aficionados. Tras identificar 241 series web en YouTube producidas durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo, se analizan aspectos de contenido, formato, publicación, calidad e implementación mediante una matriz creada ad hoc. Los principales resultados muestran que las series web colombianas: 1) son producidas de forma similar por parte de profesionales y aficionados; 2) varían en términos de duración, número de episodios y número de temporadas; 3) suelen ser comedias y dramas sobre la infancia, la adolescencia o la familia, dirigidos a un público joven y 4) se producen en centros urbanos donde tradicionalmente se ha asentado la industria audiovisual y son utilizadas por los centros educativos para competir en el mercado audiovisual como agentes periféricos. Estos hallazgos contribuyen al creciente conocimiento académico sobre el contenido de ficción creado exclusivamente para internet.

Título traducido de la contribución	Caracterización de las series web de ficción: Colombia como caso de estudio
Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas	1-32
Número de páginas	32
Volumen	28
N.º	3
Publicación especializada	Palabra Clave
Editor	Universidad de La Sabana
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2025.28.3.4
Estado	Publicada - 27 ago. 2025

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series web
Colombia
producción audiovisual
narrativas serializadas
producción web

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