Access and appropriation of journalistic news in social networks in Brazil: Refining the notion of “participation”

Authors

  • Telma Sueli Pinto Johnson Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Faculdade de Comunicação Departamento de Métodos Aplicados e Práticas Laboratoriais
  • Pedro Augusto Farnese Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Keywords:

Journalism, social networks, issues of participation, new methods.

Abstract

This article examines forms of appropriation and mediated deliberation of news on the page of the centennial Brazilian printed newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo accessed by the global social networking platform Facebook. The study discusses interaction among users from the point of view of the quality of participation, going beyond the practices of "liking" and "sharing" - understood in this study as trivial and convenient - based on news postings made by the newspaper. The category "comment" is used to enable more active and detailed participation, for the open space for exchanging public communication argued by reasons. A comparative corpus of analysis was selected in the months of October 2015 and October 2016, totaling 386 posts and 1,911 comments, in order to apprehend and differentiate valid and responsible participation models and levels capable of building and sustaining democratic and meaningful public debate. A qualitative analytical tool for debugging the comments is proposed, considering the troubled political context and its relationship with the dramatic economic recession in the country.

Author Biographies

Telma Sueli Pinto Johnson, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Faculdade de Comunicação Departamento de Métodos Aplicados e Práticas Laboratoriais

Adjunct professor of the Journalism Course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF/Brasil). Telma Johnson has a PhD in Communication and Contemporary Sociabity from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG/Brasil), with a postdoctoral internship in 2017 from the University of Beira Interior (UBI/Portugal). At UFJF, she coordinates the research project "Journalism on mobile interfaces: transcultural mappings", approved by the Sectorial Council for Graduated Studies and Research (Res. 24/2016). She is the author of the books "Pesquisa social mediada por computador: questôes, metodologia e técnicas qualitativas" and "Nos bastidores da Wikipédia Lusófona: percalços e conquistas de um projeto de escrita coletiva online".

Pedro Augusto Farnese, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Graduate Student at Federal University of Juiz de Fora

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2018-12-18

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Vol. 1 No. 27 (2018): Estudos em Comunicação

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