Appropriation of audiovisual production in Chilean college students' creative writing and their representation of family

This study is based upon an undergraduate course taught at the School of Journalism at the Universidad de los Andes in Chile 12018). In order to write from scratch a story over the semester, the fifty students enrolled in the Creative Writing class developed collectively fiction novels. Although there were no previous prompts regarding the content, all the stories represented the family whether in a central or a secondary role. Relying on the nine novels produced, this article analyzes the family representations in the fictional stories of college students. Fictional audiovisual material appears as very influential in the corpus analyzed. After conducting a content analysis on the stories, the results show that all writings reinforce the role of the family as a desirable environment for the individuals' well-being, regardless of the topic or frame of each novel.