Over the last decade social networks have become important channels for the media to publish information and communicate with their younger audiences , with Instagram recently becoming the most popular platform for this purpose. This... more
Over the last decade social networks have become important channels for the media to publish information and communicate with their younger audiences , with Instagram recently becoming the most popular platform for this purpose. This article is an investigation into news production on this social network in the context of the international crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic , by means of a content analysis of 552 posts published by the two most widely read Spanish newspapers. The results suggest that despite there being a large quantity of soft content and human interest stories, as found in previous research, Instagram is also used as a platform to distribute information of public interest about the management of the crisis (such as political decisions and health content).
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A través del análisis de contenido de una muestra de artículos de The New York Times publicados durante el primer año de legislatura del presidente de EUA, Donald Trump, la presente investigación cuantifica el número de veces que... more
A través del análisis de contenido de una muestra de artículos de The New York Times publicados durante el primer año de legislatura del presidente de EUA, Donald Trump, la presente investigación cuantifica el número de veces que declaraciones realizadas a través de Twitter son utilizadas como fuente por los periodistas. Los resultados apuntan a que la red social se ha legitimado ya como fuente periodística en la prensa digital de referencia y de la información política, más allá de contextos electorales. El estudio contribuye a profundizar en los cambios que la red social ha introducido en el uso de fuentes periodísticas en el ámbito de las hard news.
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The labels “The most viewed”, “The most shared”, and “The most commented” are examples of the logic from web analytics tools in an information ecosystem where the audience has acquired an enormous role because it is now possible to... more
The labels “The most viewed”, “The most shared”, and “The most commented” are examples of the logic from web analytics tools in an information ecosystem where the audience has acquired an enormous role because it is now possible to quantify more precisely than ever before. In this context, the present investigation focuses on how the digital media agenda is currently being constructed in relation to the increasing importance given to pageview statistics. The implications of this new scenario for our society as a whole will be analyzed. This research takes the form of a case study of two of Spain’s leading newspapers, Lavanguardia.com and Elperiodico.com, using content analysis and in-depth interviews with working professionals. The aim of the research is to attempt to answer the following questions: How relevant is public interest news? How much importance is accorded to anecdotal and viral content?
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The arrival of the Internet forced the media to transform its traditional business model and has revolutionized journalism with an “explosion” of new techniques, tools, assumptions and expectations (Anderson et al., 2014). Among these is... more
The arrival of the Internet forced the media to transform its traditional business model and has revolutionized journalism with an “explosion” of new techniques, tools, assumptions and expectations (Anderson et al., 2014). Among these is endless web analytics data (Kaushik, 2010), the statistics and charts obtained from the interaction of the readership with news websites. Web analytics have vastly increased the availability of information about what each newspaper’s audience is like, and in some cases this has resulted in journalism that is less focused on hard news (Tandoc, 2014; Justel et al., 2016) and more concerned with increasing the number of visitors to the publication’s website. The current study is based on eleven in-depth interviews carried out with journalists holding a range of diferent positions (from editors to writers to web analysts) within the newsrooms of Catalonia’s main newspapers. The conversations held with these professionals confirm that web analytics data occupy a central place in newsrooms and that they are mainly employed from a quantitative and not a qualitative perspective. For the newspapers analyzed, metrics such as the number of visitors each news item obtains or the number of unique users are still more influential than other parameters, such as the duration of time spent reading a webpage.
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A la primera gran crisis económica del siglo XXI los medios de comunicación suman una crisis coyuntural de la industria periodística más profunda y un proceso de transformación derivado de la consolidación de Internet. Una consolidación... more
A la primera gran crisis económica del siglo XXI los medios de comunicación suman una crisis coyuntural de la industria periodística más profunda y un proceso de transformación derivado de la consolidación de Internet. Una consolidación que si bien ha revolucionado la sociedad en su conjunto, ha dejado especial huella en determinados sectores, entre ellos, el de los medios de comunicación. En este contexto de crisis y transformación se plantea la cuestión de la necesidad de las empresas informativas de adaptarse a la nueva realidad para sobrevivir encontrando un modelo de negocio que funcione en el escenario actual sin que ello signifique el descuido de su función social. El presente texto, construido a partir de aportaciones teóricas y valoraciones desde el mundo profesional incluyendo material inédito de entrevistas en profundidad a profesionales de la división digital del Grupo Godó, repasa retos y oportunidades en el escenario de los medios de comunicación. Por ejemplo, la tecnología actual permite que los medios puedan tener en el entorno digital un conocimiento preciso de las preferencias y el comportamiento de su audiencia, cada vez más activa y protagonista, con la que se han abierto numerosos canales de interacción y diálogo. Esta posibilidad de conocer mejor al público es una de las oportunidades del periodismo en Internet, pero puede también conducir a primar criterios comerciales basados en las preferencias de este por encima de otros criterios periodísticos.
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Graphene is the first two-dimensional material discovered by humans. It was isolated for the first time in 2004 and is being established as a revolutionary material for the 21st century. This study presents an analysis of the quantitative... more
Graphene is the first two-dimensional material discovered by humans. It was isolated for the first time in 2004 and is being established as a revolutionary material for the 21st century. This study presents an analysis of the quantitative and qualitative contents from all news about graphene published online in The New York Times (United States), The Guardian (United Kingdom), and El País (Spain) from October 2004 to October 2017. We evaluate the media's coverage of a new, revolutionary material such as graphene in terms of the volume of news items per year and the authorship and treatment, thematic focus, and content of the articles-from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. This analysis offers insights into the knowledge transfer about graphene and can serve as a model to the materials science communication field.