Use of Twitter in Science Journalism. Case: El Nacional and El Universal in Venezuela (September-October 2014

  • Herly Alejandra Quiñónez Gómez Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela)
  • Moisés Francisco Sánchez Colmenares Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.55613
Keywords: Scientific journalism, Twitter, social networks.

Abstract

Twitter has managed to activate and strengthen the cyber citizenship and influence a change in the journalistic work. This research therefore seeks to describe the use of Twitter by journalists covering science and technology source in the oldest newspapers in Venezuela: El Nacional and El Universal during the months of September and October 2014. The investigation corresponds to a descriptive study documentary. The results show the low presence of science-related news on Twitter, an increase of journalism to public service, low use of multimedia elements and high presence of citizens as an information source over government. We conclude that journalists are participating with the average frequency content generation linked with science and technology.

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Quiñónez Gómez H. A. y Sánchez Colmenares M. F. (2017). Use of Twitter in Science Journalism. Case: El Nacional and El Universal in Venezuela (September-October 2014. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 23(1), 553-568. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.55613
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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2017)
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Research and Documents

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