Abstract
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THE USER PARTICIPATION ON FACEBOOK PAGES OF THE THREE PORTUGUESE TV NEWS CHANNELS – RTP3, SIC NOTÍCIAS, AND TVI24
Abstract
In recent decades, the national and international media contexts, in particular television media, significantly changed. The role that social networks, in particular Facebook, have taken as a content diffusion platform is unquestionable. Nowadays, traditional media (radio, newspaper, television) use the Web’s potential to distribute news content (Canelas, 2011). Currently, all TV news channels in Portugal have a website or a page on social networks. TV stations have increased communication channels with the public on digital platforms and study strategies that promote the participation and interaction with the news content (Cazajeira, 2015). The TV / Internet convergence will not only reach the content, but also the consumer, who becomes an interactive and participative audience. This reality imposes on journalism a continuous and updated news production system, dependent on a user being permanently connected to the Internet (Cazajeira, 2015). In fact, a report launched by an autonomous institution that has the function of supervising and regulating the media Portugal (ERC, 2015), confirms the relevance that social media has assumed in the publication and consumption of news. Social networks are recognised as one of the most important means for news media consultation, right after television, and the practice of sharing news is very common among consumers of online news in Portugal. Furthermore, when compared to other countries analysed by Reuters Institute (Newman, Levy, & Nielsen, 2015), Portuguese consumers are those who make the most comments to online news, preferring social networks to news sites.
Considering the importance of new online platforms for journalism, this study aims to present a quantitative analysis of user participation on the Facebook pages of the three Portuguese TV news channels, specifically RTP3, SIC Notícias and TVI24, between 8 and 14 February 2016. To track this participation, the following parameters were used: the "like" button as a way to study the demonstration of publication interest; "sharing" of a particular element, be it a photo, a video or a text, on the user Timeline, the Timeline of a friend or by private message. This monitoring is important to understand the dissemination of news content; and the comments area. The number of comments will help understand the dynamics and the discussion that the publication has on the public.
The results of 1063 posts indicate that of the analysed parameters - "Like", "Comment", and "Share" – the one with the greatest power of participation among the users of the pages of the three Portuguese TV news channels is the "Like" system, followed by "Share" and then "Comment". The theme that generates the most user participation with "Likes" and “Comments” parameters are "Science and Technology", “Education” and “Humorous/Satirical/Unusual”. Finally, the publications available end of the night (10pm-1am) has better participation rates.
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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 22th March, 2016, from http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/PT
- Baresch, B., Knight, L., Harp, D., & Yaschur, C. (2011). Friends who choose your news: An analysis of content links on Facebook. Paper presented at the ISOJ: The Official Research Journal of International Symposium on Online Journalism, Austin, TX.
- Brandão, N. (2009). As Categorias Temáticas das Notícias dos Telejornais de Horário Nobre Portugueses. Paper presented at the 6º Congresso SOPCOM, Lisboa.
- Bruns, A., Highfield, T., & Lind, R. A. (2012). Blogs, Twitter, and breaking news: The produsage of citizen journalism. Produsing theory in a digital world: The intersection of audiences and production in contemporary theory, 80(2012), 15-32.
- 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.
- Cazajeira, P. E. (2015). A audiência ubíqua do telejornalismo nas redes sociais A Televisão Ubíqua (pp. 312). Covilhã: Livros LabCom.
- Dias, S. S. (2010). Web TV - Análise e Melhores Práticas em OCS Nacionais e Internacionais. (Masters Degree), Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
- ERC. (2015). Públicos e Consumos de Média: O consumo de notícias e as plataformas digitais em portugal e em mais dez países (pp. 116). Lisboa: Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social.
- 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.
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- Newman, N., Levy, D. A., & Nielsen, R. K. (2015). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015. Available at SSRN 2619576.
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- Sousa, M. (2014). A Dinâmica da notícia nas redes sociais na internet - A circulação a partir do conteúdo das postagens no twitter e no facebook. contemporanea | comunicação e cultura, 12(2), 448-447.
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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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