TY - JOUR
T1 - Web 2.0 and informational treatment in the principal Spanish magazines of scientific and pseudoscientific contents
AU - Tejedor Calvo, Santiago
AU - Portalés-Oliva, Marta
AU - Pueyo Villa, Silvia
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - © 2018, University of La Laguna. All rights reserved. Introduction. The research analyzes 6 scientific and pseudoscientific magazines in terms of web 2.0 tool usage and informational treatment. Methodology. The digital ecosystem of the journals is explored and described, and subsequently a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 232 units is elaborated. This sample is probabilistic and selected randomly from a universe of 1,434 publications of the journal web, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts. Results and conclusions. The results show that use of 2.0 resources is basic and features of social networks are hardly exploited. In addition, although many images are used, news are not accompanied by videos, info-graphics or other types of interactive resources. The information treatment presents a need of improvement, more news should be accompanied by their authorship and the source of images more often captioned.
AB - © 2018, University of La Laguna. All rights reserved. Introduction. The research analyzes 6 scientific and pseudoscientific magazines in terms of web 2.0 tool usage and informational treatment. Methodology. The digital ecosystem of the journals is explored and described, and subsequently a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 232 units is elaborated. This sample is probabilistic and selected randomly from a universe of 1,434 publications of the journal web, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts. Results and conclusions. The results show that use of 2.0 resources is basic and features of social networks are hardly exploited. In addition, although many images are used, news are not accompanied by videos, info-graphics or other types of interactive resources. The information treatment presents a need of improvement, more news should be accompanied by their authorship and the source of images more often captioned.
KW - Cyberjournalism
KW - Paper press
KW - Pseudoscience
KW - Scientific divulgation
KW - Scientific journalism
KW - Web 2.0
U2 - https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2018-1256
DO - https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2018-1256
M3 - Article
SN - 1138-5820
VL - 2018
SP - 293
EP - 316
JO - Revista latina de comunicación social
JF - Revista latina de comunicación social
ER -