NEWS

NEW CHALLENGES FOR JOURNALISM

 OIHANE & NAROA

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There are many people but especially many journalists who use social networks to represent public opinion. Only 5% of positive comments are collected versus negative ones. This makes us think that the coordination is not correct.

Many users hire people to tweet for them. But there are other people who prefer to hire some pseudo users who are scheduled to tweet from time from.

The infrastructure of the pseudo users is as follows:

The owners are individuals who work within a group or organization, such as government actors providing comments, likes, followers, etc. Then these are orchestras that work as trolls or bots (ghost followers). And finally these are introduced into a social media account.

A clear example of this is what happened in a political speech before the German parliamentary elections in 2017. Shortly before the debate began, many Twitter users bought followers to boycott it.

In conclusion, there are many countries where bots or pseudo users are used to provide content in conventional media and to influence discussions. But these ghost followers are not friendly to journalists.

IS VIABLE TO BE JOURNALIST AND WORK ON YOUTUBE?

UNAI & MAIALEN

When people think about journalism they imagine people working in areas such as TV, radio or even in newspapers. But, people never think about YouTube because they relate this app with entertainment and not with good journalism. So, is viable to make good journalism working on YouTube and not in the conventional places? 

The answer is yes; and Nacho González, Julen Hernández and Nerea Riesco are a good example of this. They all have a Youtube Channel and each of them specialize in topics they like: Nacho has a channel which talks about English Football, Nerea has a channel dedicated to the books and the writing of them and finally, Julen has a channel in which he interviews people such as Irene Montero or even makes Vlogs of his daily life. They all mention that working as a YouTuber or content creators (as they prefer to be called like that) is not so good for earning money if the videos does not have a partnership but, that they all enjoy working sharing things they like.

FEMINISM ARRIVES TO JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT

UNAI & MAIALEN

Patriarchal system and education has affected too much to this sector. This is the reason why the movement of feminism and the power of the women that lead it has arrived to journalism. But also with feminism, the visibility of LGBT people. As Asier Rufo, a man that takes part on Gaymer project, said: “Every year, more video games include LGBT characters. And that is a good point”. 

In order to criticize the actual situation of journalism, Libe Mimenza showed some data about the jobs that women were used to do. The majority of journalists, were women but, at the highest positions they all were man journalists. Moreover, men occupied positions of investigation while women occupied positions of production or work planning. Libe affirmed that there is an only project about feminist journalism in basque, called Klitto and created in 2015.