Los iWatch: el intenso flujo de microformatos de “periodismo de un vistazo” alimentan seis de los principales medios online

Alba  Silva-Rodríguez; Xosé López-García; Carlos Toural-Bran

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2017-1160

Authors

Alba Silva-Rodríguez University of Santiago de Compostela http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1221-5178
Xosé López-García University of Santiago de Compostela http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1873-8260
Carlos Toural-Bran University of Santiago de Compostela http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-3925

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2017-1160

Keywords:

Microformat journalism, glance journalism, iWatch, personalization, apps, watch, cybermedia

Abstract

Digital media needed to adapt, in these last years, to numerous changes affecting both contents production and reception. The wearables or devices we carry along with us, specially smartwatches, can offer an interesting option in the diffusion of journalistic products. Objectives and Methods. To study the trends in the production of contents for iWatch, we used a quantitative methodology based on analyzing apps for Apple smartwatch from a total of fifteen cybermedia of informative communication of generalistic character and daily publication, with printed matrix. Results. Results show that the platform demands renewed narratives and online media still have very primary models available to face the new informative challenges of ubiquity. Discussion and conclusions. Exploit personalization, audios or customization, are some of the challenges editors and journalists must face in the current journalistic context.

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Author Biographies

Alba Silva-Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela

Alba Silva-Rodríguez is Professor of Journalism in the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and member of the research group “Novos Medios” (GI- 1641) which research lines are focused on the analysis of strategies, rhetoric and technological formats for emergent markets in communication. She is secretary of the RAEIC journal (Spanish Journal of Research in Communication). Her H index is 2 (January 2017).

Xosé López-García, University of Santiago de Compostela

Xosé López-García is Full Professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication Sciences in the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, doctor in history and journalist. He coordinates the research group Novos Medios. Among his research lines there is the study of digital and printed media, analysis of impact of technology in mediated communication, analysis of the performance of cultural industries, and the combined strategy of printed and online products in the society of knowledge. His H index is 17 (January 2017).

Carlos Toural-Bran, University of Santiago de Compostela

Carlos Toural- Bran, journalist and Professor of Journalism, he belongs to the Department of Communication Sciences of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.

He is part of the research group Novos Medios since 2006. His research lines handle about the analysis of new journalistic formats, their convergence, architecture of information, social networks and scientific dissemination. His H index is 2 (January 2017).

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