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One of the most significant changes in journalism over the last decade has been the participation of citizens in the information process, establishing various forms of interaction with professional journalists and the media. This development has established a new journalistic culture based on dynamic interaction with the audience that improved information processes in various ways. However, this active role of the audience can not substantiate the so called citizen journalism, because it lacks the necessary conditions to ensure quality information that secures constructive and civilized public debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article do an approach to the impact of citizen activism during the earthquake of Ecuador on April 16, against the responsiveness of the mass media. The methodology considers the review of the activity of users on Twitter with two tools: Trendinalia and Twitter Reach, during 24 hours following the earthquake. First results indicate the importance of the user activity for informative production; however, Twitter, as an anarchic tool, it was evident the quantity of sources and much of the information was made about emotional issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the evolution of environmental dissemination in on-line press through new tools for the transmission of the information provided by the Internet. First, the paper studies the transformation of the role of the journalist as a mediator of environmental information. This function is regressing because of the crisis of print media and also for the role of new voices on the Internet -scientists, environmentalists, specialized institutions, citizen journalism. At the same time, it explores the influence of the incorporation of intertextuality, hyperlinks and feedback from readers on the environmental message. On the other hand, it addresses to a key issues such as the immediacy in content transmission -with the risks to avoid sensationalism and superficiality or guarantee the contrast- and its impact in environmental story, characterized by its complexity. In addition, the fragmentation of audiences that contribute to both digital media such as social networks is also addressed. The article concludes with the presentation of the new challenges in the environmental dissemination in environment digital journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social network burst in the Spanish Radio in the period between 2009-2010, transforming profoundly the relation with the listeners, and enriching significally the emission. The purpose of this study is to analyze the results of this symbiosis among media, in addition to the disparate benefit among various distant channels regarding this new tool. We will test out this decisive use, but incipient, and the clear superiority of Facebook over Twitter, the two most used platforms. Regarding the profile of whom they manage today the network in the Radio Station, it is notable that there is a lack of specific training in the community management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the notion of public journalism in Colombia, focusing on a critical reading of the work of Colombian researcher Ana María Miralles of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin (Colombia). The author discusses how Miralles emphasizes the role of mass media in Latin American democratic regimes and the reality-constructing effect of news production and publishing. She also considers her criticism of traditional journalism and points out the distinction made by Miralles between civic and public journalism.

The new multimedia forms, consist of properties that include information and documentation that can attract the interest of different people of a certain relatively small geographical area. These new fusions, their ways of presentations, reflections and management displayed on the computer screen, or other system of displays, which are present in different parts of the city are not easy to understand. This article shows the increase of knowledge which can manifest have a variety of experimental subjects in two digital infographics displays of local interest. We have selected people with cultural issues of an organic nature, which can in order to measure and compare the response they have through visual aids and synthetic clarifying, through digital infographics with miscellaneous descriptions, narrations or interpretations, equally or more effective than classical texts or the endless and troublesome videos, which often have bandwidth problems [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Citizen Journalism has questioned the value of the journalistic profession and it has been suggested that it gradually might replace it. This article summarizes part of the results of a Chilean research and analyzes the applicability of the concept "citizen journalism" from the viewpoint of the players. From 12 in depth interviews with people in charge of media that follow the phenomenon, and from 190 surveys to citizens enrolled in them, it concludes that it shouldn't be denominated as "journalism". It must be considered as a "citizen complement" to the informative panorama. It could be a contribution but not a substitute of the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quick technological development registered on the Media in the past twenty years has specially affected its written aspects, although the main focus was on the audiovisual field initially. This brisk pace has taken place in the informative writting due to the intensive introduction of modern technology which has produced a relevant tools and methods convergency between fields previously apart, as were informative data and journalistic reporterism. Both fields have found and developped a convergence level reached thanks to the Cybernetic World, and even merge in the so called Journalism 2.0 or Citizen Journalism. In there data researchers and journalists use the same tools and methods through Internet. At the same time, multinational and multidisciplinary companies get together to form world wide corporations operating on database as well as on spreading journalistic reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses online journalistic media formats with an emphasis on blogs. It asserts that the Internet has expanded the ways in which people can participate in journalism. Blogs, wikis, online social networks, forums, chat rooms, instant messaging, and news groups represent what has come to be known as social media, the article says. Social media have led to so-called citizen or participatory journalism, in which the power of public communication, circulation of information, and the setting of agendas has been devolved from traditional media entities to citizens, the article adds. Blogs as a journalistic medium are examined in detail.

Letters to the editor is a modality of participative journalism that allows the establishment of communicative bonds among readers, media and other actors of the public space of discussion. In this article an analysis of Letters to the column of La Nación is made from the pragmatic theory of the speech acts. Interest is centered in establishing the intentions of the readers who send these messages to the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the relationship between online publishing and citizen participation. The journalistic shift from print to digital publishing, the incidence of high-speed Internet access on user demand for content, and the effect of Web 2.0 technologies on user participation and content creation are noted. Citing researcher Steve Outing's 2005 article "The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism," several types of user involvement are considered including reader comments, the journalistic use of blogs, and reader-created content. The author explores how these different levels of user involvement are present in independent online news site Soitu.es.

The article reports on efforts by Steffen Leidel and Elena Ern to improve the quality of content on Latin American blogs and related forms of on-line citizen journalism through "blog re-visto" (www.revisto.de), a project of the German entity Deutsche Welle Akademie. It distinguishes between citizen news gathering and professional journalism, noting that news presented according to journalistic principles carries the highest quality, credibility, and overall value. Finding that Internet connectivity is increasing and improving in Latin America, the article describes the greatest challenge to citizen reporting as ensuring content quality.