Production and consumption of news in social digital networks in Brazil: proximity as news value for journalists and readers
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https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.46.1311Keywords:
news, digital social networks, Facebook, coverage, proximityAbstract
This article discusses the importance of proximity in the journalistic production that circulates in social networks, through the newspapers fanpages. From the studies that think relevant criteria to identify what is news in traditional formats, this research observes what producers select and how readers interact with the content, according to proximity, in social digital networks. The research analyses the journalistic production for Facebook by nine Brazilian regional newspapers, from the Northeast region. A total of 9.993 posts were analyzed, based on the analysis of the journalistic content. Identifying thecoverage: local, regional, national and international. The results show three important issues that are discussed in the article: the difference between vehicles in terms of published content, the "nationalization" of regional newspaper fanpages and the predominance of comments in local posts.
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Bauer, M. W. (2002). Análise de conteúdo clássica: uma revisão (Classical content analysis: A review). In M. W. Bauer & G. Gaskell (Eds.), Pesquisa qualitativa com texto, imagem e som (Qualitative research with text, image and sound) (pp. 189-217). Petrópolis: Vozes.
Baym, G. (2008). Infotainment. The International Encyclopedia of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405186407.wbieci031
Bastos, M. (2015). Shares, Pins, and Tweets. Journalism Studies, 16(3), 305-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2014.891857
Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, E. (2012). How Users Take Advantage of Different Forms of Interactivity on Online News Sites: Clicking, E-Mailing, and Commenting. Human Communication Research, 38(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2011.01418.x
Boczkowski, P. & Peer, L. (2011). The Choice Gap: The Divergent Online News. Preferences of Journalists and Consumers. Journal of Communication, 61(5), 857–876. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01582.x
Borges, J. (2008). Webjornalismo político e a cobertura online das eleições presidenciais de 2002 (Political web journalism and the online covering of 2002 presidential elections). Matrizes, 2(1), 207-225. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v2i1p207-225
Chagas, V. (2016). Economia Política do Jornalismo Popular em Perspectiva Comparada: Uma Análise Sobre a Tabloidização no Brasil, na Índia e na África do Sul (Political economy of popular journalism in comparative perspective: an analysis on tabloidization in Brazil, India and South Africa). Brazilian Journalism Research, 12(1), 60-81. https://doi.org/10.25200/BJR.v12n1.2016.791
Fernandes, M. L. (2014). A proximidade como critério de noticiabilidade (Proximity as a criterion of newsworthiness). In G. Silva, M. P. Silva, & M. L. Fernandes (Eds.), Critérios de noticiabilidade: problemas conceituais e aplicações (Newsworthiness criteria: conceptual problems and applications). Florianópolis: Insular.
Galtung, J. & Ruge, M. H. (1965). The structure of foreign news. Journal of International Peace Research, 2(1), 64-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/002234336500200104
García-Perdomo, V., Salaverría, R., Kilgo, D. K., & Harlow, S. (2017). To Share or Not to Share: The influence of news values and topics on popular social media content in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina. Journalism Studies, 19(8), 1180-1201. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1265896
Harcup, T. & O'Neill, D. (2001). What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited. Journalism Studies, 2(2), 261-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616700118449
Harcup, T. & O'Neill, D. (2017). What is News? News values revisited (again). Journalism Studies, 18(12), 1470-1488. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1150193
Hong, S. (2012). Online news on Twitter: Newspapers' social media adoption and their online readership. Information Economics and Policy, 24(1), 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2012.01.004
Horan, T. (2013). ‘Soft’ Versus ‘Hard’ News On Microblogging Networks. Information, Communication & Society, 16(1), 43-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.649774
Ju, A., Jeong, S. H., & Chyi, H. I. (2014). Will Social Media Save Newspapers? Journalism Practice, 8(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2013.794022
Larsson, A. O. (2016). I Shared the News Today, Oh Boy. Journalism Studies, 19(1), 43-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1154797
Massuchin, M. G. (2018). The 2016 Elections on Brazilian Regional Newspapers's Fan Pages: Facebook as a space for distribution and visibility of news on the campaign. Contracampo – Brazilian Journal of Communication, 37(2), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.22409/contracampo.v0i0.1056
Pinto, P. (2017). Brasil e as suas mídias regionais: estudos sobre as regiões Norte e Sul (Brazil and its regional media: studies on the North and South regions). Rio de Janeiro: Luminária Acadêmica.
Santos, M. A., Lycarião, D., & de Aquino, J. A. (2019). The virtuous cycle of news sharing on Facebook: Effects of platform affordances and journalistic routines on news sharing. New Media & Society, 21(2), 398–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818797610
Secretaria de Comunicação Social. (2016). Pesquisa Brasileira de Mídia 2016: hábitos de consumo de mídia pela população brasileira (Brazilian Media Research 2016: habits of media consumption by the Brazilian population) (PDF file). Retrieved from http://www.secom.gov.br/atuacao/pesquisa/lista-de-pesquisas-quantitativas-e-qualitativas-de-contratos-atuais/pesquisa-brasileira-de-midia-pbm-2016.pdf/view
Silva, G. (2005). Para pensar critérios de noticiabilidade (To think newsworthy criteria). Estudos e Jornalismo e Mídia, 2(1), 95-107. https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x
Schaudt, S. & Carpenter, S. (2009). The News That’s fit to Click: An Analysis of Online News Values and Preferences Present in the Most-viewed Stories on azcentral.com. Southwestern Mass Communication Journal Spring, 24(2), 17–26.
Shoemaker, P., Johnson, P., Seo, H., & Wang, X. (2010). Readers as gatekeepers of online news: Brazil, China, and the United States. Brazilian Journalism Research, 6(1), 58-83. https://doi.org/10.25200/BJR.v6n1.2010.226
Tewksbury, D. (2003). What Do Americans Really Want to Know? Tracking the Behavior of News Readers on the Internet. Journal of communication, 53(4), 694–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2003.tb02918.x
Trilling, D., Tolochko, P., & Burscher, B. (2016). From newsworthiness to shareworthiness: how to predict news sharing based on article characteristics. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 94(1), 38-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699016654682
Teixeira, M. (2014). A interação usuário x Jornal em um site de rede social: indícios de uma mudança (User x newspaper interaction on a social network site: evidence of change). Brazilian Journalism Research, 10(1), 192-217. https://doi.org/10.25200/BJR.v10n1.2014.553
Tuchman, G. (1980). Making News. New York: Free Press.
Weber, P. (2014). Discussions in the comments section: Factors influencing participation and interactivity in online newspapers’ reader comments. New Media & Society, 16(6), 941– 957. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813495165
Zago, G. & Bastos, M. (2013). Visibilidade de Notícias no Twitter e no Facebook: Análise Comparativa das Notícias mais Repercutidas na Europa e nas Américas (Visibility of news items on Twitter and Facebook: comparative analysis of the most replicated news in Europe and the Americas). Brazilian Journalism Research, 9(1), 116-133. https://doi.org/10.25200/BJR.v9n1.2013.510
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2020-09-27
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Massuchin, M. G. (2020). Production and consumption of news in social digital networks in Brazil: proximity as news value for journalists and readers. Cuadernos.Info, (46), 178–202. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.46.1311
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