Nuevos procedimientos de formación del presente y de definición de noticiabilidad en los medios en la era de las redes sociales

Abstract

Digital social networks are, at present, a collective intelligence that can be transformed into a real editor of social media to help define the present social and newsworthiness of the facts, based on the interest of these. The aim of this work is to know how to determine the newsworthiness of the events with the use of social networks in Ecuador and disseminate tools for this purpose. To this was done a desk study and consultation to 94 Ecuadorian journalists on the use of social networks at work, especially in the option of using them to define what is news and what is more news. Social networks and related tools can help determine if an event is newsworthy or not newsworthy. This is something that has already begun to make real in Ecuadorian media.