El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el tratamiento dado por los cibermedios ecuatorianos a las informaciones relacionadas con el Presidente Rafael Correa. Para ello, se analizan 15 cibermedios ecuatorianos durante un periodo de... more
El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el tratamiento dado por los cibermedios ecuatorianos a las informaciones relacionadas con el Presidente Rafael Correa. Para ello, se analizan 15 cibermedios ecuatorianos durante un periodo de 15 días. El trabajo se centra en analizar la calidad de la información periodística en los medios digitales en los temas de presidencia desde dos perspectivas: el cumplimiento de los estándares de calidad tradicionales en la práctica periodística (creación de piezas periodísticas propias, diversidad de géneros periodísticos, fuentes informativas utilizadas y variedad de las mismas y contextualización del acontecimiento) y la implementación de las nuevas posibilidades ofrecidas por el soporte digital (uso de elementos multimedia, posibilidades de interacción en las informaciones y desarrollo de la hipertextualidad). Los resultados muestran que la puesta en práctica de rutinas periodísticas asociadas a la definición clásica de calidad de contenidos periodísticos y la creación de relatos que aprovechen las características inherentes de los productos ciberperiodísticos, se ve frenada por la inmediatez y la necesidad de publicar de manera constante contenidos en un tema central de la agenda cibermediática ecuatoriana como es el caso de los temas relacionados con la presidencia de la República del Ecuador.
The objective of this research is to analyze the Ecuadorian online media management of information related to the administration of President Rafael Correa. Therefore, fifteen Ecuadorian online media are analyzed over a period of 15 days. The paper focuses on analyzing the quality of journalistic information in the digital media on topics related to the presidency from two perspectives. The first is the compliance with traditional standards of quality in journalistic practice (creating own journalistic pieces, diversity of journalistic genres, information sources used and the variety of them and the contextualization of events). The second is the implementation of the new possibilities offered by digital media (use of multimedia elements, possibilities of interaction in the development of information and hypertextuality). The results show that the implementation of journalistic routines associated with the classic definition of quality of journalistic content and the creation of stories that take advantage of the inherent characteristics of cyberjournalism are hampered by the need for immediacy and by the need to constantly publish content on a central theme of the Ecuadorian online media agenda, as in the case of presidency related topics.
The growing expansion of Internet access and mass-scale usage of social networking platforms and search engines have forced digital newspapers to deal with challenges, amongst which are the need to constantly update news, the increasing... more
The growing expansion of Internet access and mass-scale usage of social networking platforms and search engines have forced digital newspapers to deal with challenges, amongst which are the need to constantly update news, the increasing complexity of sources, the difficulty of exercising their function as gatekeepers in a fragmented environment in which the opinions, biases and preconceptions of pundits, their followers, Twitter users, etc. has taken on a new and decisive weight and the mounting pressure to publish certain news items simply because they sell. They must also share audiences with aggregators devoted to the business of disseminating content produced by digital news publishers, blogs and RSS feeds, which is chosen on the basis of search engine algorithms, the votes of users or the preferences of readers. The fact that these computerized systems of news distribution seldom employ the criteria upon which journalism is based suggests that the work of gatekeeping is being r...
