IV Congress of CiberSociety 2009. Analog crisis, digital future

Topic F - Communication

Work Team F-34: Digital journalism

Communications

Initial questions

How are developing the different national and regional scenarios of digital information in terms of audiences, producers, content and training?

What skills are essential for the training of a digital journalist? And for trainers?

Is the process of convergence an opportunity or does it diminish the drive of the online newsrooms?

Is citizen journalism a real alternative to professional journalism on the Web? On what conditions?

Is there a future for the model of payment for contents on the Internet?

What are the core elements of a sound and feasible interactive narrative multimedia in the 1.0 and 2.0 environments?

What influence have/will have the new generation sites like Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook, among others, in Journalism?

Work Group description

This working group is a meeting place and a space to discuss the transformation of digital media and trends, to compare expectations with realities and to examine the validity of the present models of online journalism. In a changing scenario, this is a place to share the concerns of journalists, producers, citizens and educators in online journalism. We invite researchers to look for and identify the main lines of work in research as well as the common interests, unexplored areas and new opportunities cooperation in basic and applied research