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Viral News Content, Instantaneity, and Newsworthiness Criteria

Viral News Content, Instantaneity, and Newsworthiness Criteria
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Author(s): Lila Luchessi (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 18
Source title: Exploring Transmedia Journalism in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Renira Rampazzo Gambarato (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)and Geane C. Alzamora (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3781-6.ch003

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Abstract

Social networks have modified the activities of the press, the actions of audiences, and the perceptions of societies. The strategies displayed to avoid losing consumers aim at fulfilling the audience's needs and the gap between the producers' and the consumers' interests tends to widen. This leads to a crisis point in news financing, affecting the traditional logic of the media industry; while advertisers are now able to reach their audiences without its mediation, viralization and instantaneity force the media to publish information incompatible with the public interest as considered by the press. In this way, traditional newsworthiness criteria are replaced by other criteria that redefine the concept of information. The aim of this chapter is to analyze the way in which instantaneity and viralization have affected not only the journalistic activity but also the information selection criteria and the audiences' input on the web.

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