Social media and its influence in everyday journalistic practices

Social Media in Journalistic Inquiry - Requirements for a Search System incorporating Journalistic Quality Criteria

Social media allow journalists to incorporate additional information into their journalistic inquiry. However, journalists often cannot be certain of the quality of information from social media. IS research has yet to sufficiently address this issue. Most notably, there is no information system that supports searching for social media content about a specific topic while considering journalist...

Social and Journalistic Changes

Everyday Serendipity as Described in Social Media

Serendipity has received much attention from library and information science, psychology, and computer science. Yet not much is known about serendipity in the context of everyday information behavior. In general, a key challenge in the study of serendipity is obtaining accounts of serendipitous experiences that provide insight into the phenomenon. The exploratory research reported here approach...

Social networks as journalistic paradigm . Spanish media on Facebook

Spain is one of the countries with higher use of social networks in the world. Among them, Facebook is emerging as one of the most significant internationally. If these phenomena are combined with the current transformation of journalism, it is not surprising that some Spanish cybermedia have approached this platform to develop new products for the Web. From this starting point, this article fo...

Everyday practices of documentation, and the influence of information science

When I was doing my Masters degree in Information Science, quite a number of years ago, the idea that the things I and my fellow students were studying were of relevance to everyday life would have seemed strange to us. We were dealing with ways of providing formal published information to academics and professionals; 'scholarly communication' was the name of the game. True, we were aware of pu...