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This paper is aimed to understand the relation between Television Journalism, journalistic sources and social network communication. Also, it explains how television news production benefits of the contact with journalistic sources, which have changed since the use of virtual platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. This is a non experimental, applicative, descriptive, correlative and multivariable study. The sample consisted in thirty journalists from television news program “ATV Noticias” (Andina de Radiodifusion Company, Lima, Peru). The research concluded that the frequent use of Internet and Social Networks impacted television news programs. This happens during television production process: themes selection, contact with journalistic sources and reporters work, until the outline and the feedback generated by the Social Networks.

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The article presents one panoramic viewpoint on social media influence in the work of professional journalism. The use of social media as information sources and their impact on information processing and news production routines are described. It is concluded that social media influence growing in the journalistic activity that becomes effective in contemporary society.

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The increasing number of electronic mobile devices like tablets and smartphones, with capacity to tape and report audiovisual contents, has made a considerable impact in reporter’s work. The possibility of taping live images without having to move a TV camera in courtroom, o even better, being able to transmit news, perceptions or opinions during judicial proceedings by Social Media (over all Twitter) not only has changed the way in which journalists work, but it has also suppose a series of benefits and risks for the judicial proceeding itself. In the same way that in the late 1990s, the O. J. Simpson trial (USA) wasthe reference for the debate on the access of TV cameras in Courts, today, the Oscar Pistorius (South Africa) is the field of proofs to visualize those changes that Twitter has introduced in the journalistic coverage of Courts.

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The communication between organizations and their stakeholders has evolved as the waves of competitive challenges that have marked technological innovations (Kanter, 2006). Since 2006 it has become necessary not only to increase interaction particularly via social media, but also to incorporate aspects of organizational responsibility and its foundations in values (Kotler, Kartajava, & Setiawan, 2011) which directly influence in building its image (Capriotti, 2009) and reputation (Villafañe, 2004). This article analyzes the image and reputation of some private organizations in Mexico through the study of the activity they have in this social media. The results of this research suggest some conclusions regarding the importance of strategy in the use of Twitter as a basis for building the reputation of the organizations which must recognize the communication as a two-way process that accounts for interaction processes and mutual influence over time.

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Social networks like Twitter have become platforms used by people as well as corporations to reach audiences of a size that, barely a decade ago, seemed unimaginable. Journalism has also been affected by this trend, so now journalists and media corporations make use of these social networks.

The presence of media and journalists in platforms such as Twitter inevitably comes with multiple ways of presenting themselves to the public. While the media face the challenge to upkeep their informational end, journalists have to find a balance between their personal and professional profile.

A comparative usability analysis of journalists and media Twitter accounts makes this an evident problem that will allow studying the phenomenon and proposing certain guidelines for action.

Questions emerge rapidly: Can media corporatize a social tool that is essentially personal? Must a journalist inform, give his/her opinion as a common citizen, in an account created under his professional profile? Can media and journalists profiles co-exist in the same social network? The answers to these questions present us with new professional and ethical challenges that are worthy of further study.

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This paper aims to contribute to the study of the difficulties that young people face in accessing the public sphere as political actors. It looks at the Press coverage and the Twitter activity surrounding the restructuring process and the subsequent dissolution of the Spanish Youth Council (Consejo de la Juventud de España - CJE). A content analysis was carried out on the news published in 22 newspapers between 2012 and 2014, as well as on the use of Twitter within the framework of the “Salvemos el CJE” campaign during the same period of time. The main objective of the analysis has been to see the prominence of this issue on both the media and citizens’ agendas. In most newspapers, the measures taken by the government vis-á-vis the CJE were treated as punctual news of peripheral importance. The online campaign, mainly orchestrated by youth grassroots movements, raised the controversy on the biased nature and the political consequences of this plan. The core of the campaign addressed the representation of young people in public institutions. The results of the study suggest that the increased potential for visibility offered by social media is not always maximized and does not necessarily alter the prominence of an issue in the public sphere.

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Analyzing the influence of social media on the learning process is no longer a novel idea; however, due to its importance for students and consequently for teachers, research continues to explore the pedagogical potential of social media. The main objective of the present study was to analyze the influence of teacher roles (guide or facilitator) on students’ social participation in Twitter and their perceived academic experience. The sample consisted of 525 future teachers, all of the Master’s degree students at Spain’s National Distance Education University (UNED). We used a mixed triangulation design, a theoretical model, quantitative methods (descriptive analysis and contrast of means) and qualitative methods (content analysis following the principles of grounded theory). Our results showed that the teacher’s role as a facilitator exerted a more positive influence on how students assessed their experience and on their participation on Twitter than the role as a guide. We conclude that the use of social media sites in education offers a motivating and satisfying framework that is not provided by other more traditional means such as forums, and that a role that facilitates independent learning is a better strategy when using social media in the classroom.

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Social laboratories, defined as experimental spaces for co-creation, have currently become the main centres of innovation. Medialabs are experimental laboratories of technologies and communication media which have co-evolved along with the digital society into becoming mediation laboratories of citizen experimentation, observing a confluence of both models. In the last years, these centres have expanded within the higher education context, generating new forms of innovation and posing the issue on how to measure the impact of such open spaces. This paper analyzes the origin and development of social laboratories in Spain. It first reviews their historical development since its antecedents in the 19th Century until the most recent initiatives. It focuses specifically on initiatives launched within the university context, highlighting their role as motors of innovation. Then, it presents the case of Medialab UGR, a co-creation and digital culture centre of social collaboration framed in the digital context. Finally, it offers a first approach towards the assessment of its social impact by using the Twitter and analyzes its capacity to mobilize and reach non-academic audiences. The findings show the plurality of actors involved in this type of networks as well as the difficulty and complexity of the task on the development of indicators that can comprise both, academic and social interests.

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