Abstract
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Abstract
The growing popularity of social networks, and their impact on the daily lives of consumers, contributed to news organizations marking their presence on different online platforms. In the case of Facebook, a social network that began as a personal space, it has gradually transformed into a content-sharing space (Oeldorf-Hirsch & Sundar, 2015). Nowadays, Facebook is the second most viewed website in Portugal (Alexa, 2016), and therefore, it has become crucial for Portuguese news agencies to be present on this social network. Although television continues to be the main information source in Portugal, social networks, and specifically Facebook, are increasingly important in news consumption by users (ERC, 2015). This new way of news dissemination, as well as the proliferation that these contents reach in social networks, led to news agencies exploiting these new channels, both to attract new audiences, and to redirect users to their own websites (Castillo, El-Haddad, Pfeffer, & Stempeck, 2014). Thus, it is important to understand how, and what kind of content these agencies put on their Facebook channels, as well as the strategies they use to share these same contents. This study aims to understand how the main news channels of Portuguese TV (RTP3, SIC Notícias, and TVI24) manage and use the social network Facebook to share news contents. To this end, the authors collected quantitative data of all posts placed on Facebook between February 8 and February 14 2016. Approximately 1063 posts were collected and analysed from the three Facebook pages. The results indicate that two of the three channels extensively used their Facebook pages to share and target content to their official websites. Regarding the news sources and type of media used, the three Portuguese TV news channels use similar strategies. However, in what concerns the main themes and quantity of messages per day, as well as the level of redundancy of information, the three channels manage their pages differently.
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References
- Aitamurto, T., & Lewis, S. C. (2013). Open innovation in digital journalism: Examining the impact of Open APIs at four news organizations. New Media & Society, 15(2), 314-331.
- Alexa. (2016). Top Sites in Portugal. Retrieved from http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/PT
- Brandão, N. (2009). As Categorias Temáticas das Notícias dos Telejornais de Horário Nobre Portugueses. Paper presented at the 6º Congresso SOPCOM, Lisboa.
- Cádima, F. R. (2010). A Televisão Pública face aos Novos Ambientes Web. Paper presented at the II Congreso Internacional Comunicacion 3.0, Salamanca.
- Cádima, F. R. (2013). New Problems for Journalism in the Digital Age. Paper presented at the Understanding Communications in the New Media Era, Istanbul.
- Canelas, C. (2011). Os Efeitos da Convergência nos Media Noticiosos. Paper presented at the Congresso Nacional "Literacia, Media e Cidadania", Braga.
- Castillo, C., El-Haddad, M., Pfeffer, J., & Stempeck, M. (2014). Characterizing the life cycle of online news stories using social media reactions. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing.
- ERC. (2015). Públicos e Consumos de Média: O consumo de notícias e as plataformas digitais em portugal e em mais dez países. Retrieved from Lisboa:
- Gluck, M., & Sales, M. (2008). The Future of Television? Advertising, technology and the pursuit of audiences. Retrieved from
- Hermida, A., Fletcher, F., Korell, D., & Logan, D. (2012). Share, like, recommend: Decoding the social media news consumer. Journalism Studies, 13(5-6), 815-824.
- Hille, S., & Bakker, P. (2014). Engaging the Social News User: Comments on News Sites and Facebook. Journalism Practice, 8(5), 563-572.
- Jacobson, S. (2013). Does audience participation on Facebook influence the news agenda? A case study of the Rachel Maddow Show. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 57(3), 338-355.
- Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press.
- Ju, A., Jeong, S. H., & Chyi, H. I. (2014). Will social media save newspapers? Examining the effectiveness of Facebook and Twitter as news platforms. Journalism Practice, 8(1), 1-17.
- Lopes, F. (1999). O Telejornal e o Serviço Público. Coimbra: Minerva Editora.
- Newman, N., Levy, D., & Nielsen, R. (2015). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015: Tracking the Future of News. Retrieved from Oxford:
- Oeldorf-Hirsch, A., & Sundar, S. S. (2015). Posting, commenting, and tagging: Effects of sharing news stories on Facebook. Computers in Human Behavior, 44, 240-249.
- Silveira, J., Cardoso, G., & Neto, P. (2010). Telejornais no início do Século XXI: Edições Colibri.
- Sobral, F. A. (2012). Televisão em Contexto Português: Uma Abordagem Histórica e Prospetiva. Millenium, 42, 17.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Articles |
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| Publication Date | August 26, 2016 |
| Submission Date | August 24, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016Volume: 2 Issue: 5 |
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