Managing brief data from users to professionals. Collaborative trends around microblogging for journalism

Noguera Vivo, J. (2010). Managing brief data from users to professionals. Collaborative trends around microblogging for journalism. Francq, Pascal (Ed.). Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest: Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment, 182-205Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global.

Abstract: Microblogging’s explosion has provoked changes in the Blogosphere (now bloggers prefer to publish brief content in microblogs), and it has changed some roles in journalism too. Twitter is the most important tool in this phenomenon and it has served to keep connected sources, journalists and audiences. In recent years, media and news agencies are being characterized by an intensive use of microblogs. Journalists start to be collaborate within communities of interests trough microblogging, in particular Twitter. Facts like California fires are a clear example of Twitter coverages, which were started by users and gathered by journalists. This is more than a brief and fast tool for journalism, it is related with making connections with audiences, witnesses and sources of breaking news. In this sense, this chapter will show several examples in order to explain how Twitter is a new way to design collaborative coverages. Hence, it is not just a platform on fashion.