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Instant Messaging Networks as a New Channel to Spread the News: Use of WhatsApp and Telegram in the Spanish Online Media of Proximity

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In the areas of proximity, local and hyperlocal media reinforce the link with the community in which they operate and open more and more channels for citizen participation. In a context in which smartphones and tablets are already the first device to access the Internet and consult online news for much of the population, this research pursues the objective of knowing which are the uses that the Spanish online media of proximity make of instant messaging networks to spread the news and keep in contact with their users. For this, the content of the messages sent by five media outlets through WhatsApp and Telegram networks is analyzed, taking as sample period the week between November 28 and December 4 of 2016. The results obtained show a diversity of strategies and contents for the spreading of news, without any initiatives of real conversation with the readers.

This article has been developed within the research project “Uses and informative preferences in the new media map in Spain: journalism models for mobile devices” (Reference: CSO2015-64662-C4-4-R) funded by Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Government of Spain) and co-financed by the structural fund ERDF.

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    María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, Xosé López-García & Lara Lozano-Aguiar

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Negreira-Rey, MC., López-García, X., Lozano-Aguiar, L. (2017). Instant Messaging Networks as a New Channel to Spread the News: Use of WhatsApp and Telegram in the Spanish Online Media of Proximity. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56541-5_8

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