Digital Press Research Articles

Análisis descriptivo del fotoperiodismo narrativo en los diarios digitales Folha de Sao Paulo y The Guardian

Ante los escasos estudios existentes en este campo, el presente trabajo desarrolla un análisis de los nuevos productos de fotoperiodismo narrativo en prensa digital, sus componentes y aspectos sustantivos, centrado en los diarios digitales Folha de Sao Paulo y The Guardian. La muestra consta de 35 piezas con un total de 899 fotografías, de las cuales 351 (39,1%) corresponden a Folha de Sao Paulo y 548 (60,9%) a The Guardian. Apoyándose en la metodología del Análisis de contenido, se emplea una ficha de diseño propio, con indicadores poco contemplados en trabajos sobre fotografía, como diseño estructural, funcionalidad o integración de contenidos multimedia. Los resultados indican que estos productos presentan formatos y configuraciones diferentes, poseen una estructura clara, extensión media-alta y están dotados de funcionalidades sencillas. La buena jerarquización, variedad, gran tamaño y calidad de las imágenes otorga un alto impacto visual. Los elementos textuales complementan y aclaran el sentido lógico del relato. La incorporación de contenidos audiovisuales y links es discreta, pero bien contextualizada. Todo ello supone un notable avance estético-comunicativo respecto a los modos convencionales de tratamiento de la fotografía en la prensa digital.

Cuba's Digital Millennials: Independent Digital Media and Civil Society on the Island of the Disconnected

Cuba's Digital Millennials:Independent Digital Media and Civil Society on the Island of the Disconnected Ted A. Henken (bio) despite having one of the western hemisphere's lowest internet access rates, Cubans—with help from a diverse and extensive diaspora—have in recent years formed a rich variety of independent digital news, information, and entertainment projects, contributing to the expansion of the public sphere on the island. This effort, however, takes place in an asphyxiating climate of political polarization, where independent journalists must continue to struggle against the US embargo on the one hand and the Cuban government media monopoly on the other. Here I chronicle the efforts of a group of these autonomous digital media projects1 to establish and maintain their hard-won digital spaces and at times to convert them into more tangible, public spaces, and thereby to impact Cuban civil society. Moreover, given that the digital sphere—much like the Cuban nation—is inherently transnational, I also include a number of diasporic media ventures as part of the same Cuban "indie" media phenomenon. While some of these projects began as personal blogs, many have consciously embraced the challenge of informing the Cuban public in a more systematic, coordinated, collaborative, and entrepreneurial way, targeting the demand for reliable and objective [End Page 429] reportage unmet by the propagandistic state media. Cuba's independent digital press has also been affected by the historic announcement in December 2014 that Cuba and the US would reestablish diplomatic relations and begin to "normalize" their acrimonious relationship. Though distinct from one another in their politics and positioning vis-à-vis the Cuban Revolution and the US embargo, all media profiled here share a common multifront struggle to establish their legitimacy in Cuba's polarized and contested public sphere, maintain a degree of autonomy while preserving their access to the Internet, and become increasingly visible and accessible to the public while engaging in civil, productive debate over national issues. Given this context, I analyze the various branches of Cuba's independent media ecosystem based on the findings of my research, which included interviews with many leading Cuban bloggers and independent journalists, close readings of their articles and websites, and a questionnaire circulated among the directors of more than 30 of Cuba's most prominent digital media projects.2 EXPANDING INTERNET ACCESS AND CUBANS' INVENTOS DIGITALES While political censorship, high costs, slow speeds, and limited access continue to characterize the Cuban Internet, in recent years Cuba has seen transformations both in public web access via cybercafés and Wi-Fi hotspots, and in the ever-inventive workarounds that Cubans themselves have designed to produce and distribute digital content. These developments began with an increase in the number and diversity of Cuba's independent bloggers starting in 2004, followed by the subsequent growth of collective projects of citizen journalism since 2008. These phenomena have been fueled by the opening of Cuba's first public-access Internet cafés in June 2013, the possibility of accessing e-mail via cell phone for the first time in 2014, the establishment of 35 public Wi-Fi hotspots across the island in the summer of 2015, and the simultaneous spread across the island of "el paquete" (the packet), an informal digital data distribution system (Del Valle 2013). [End Page 430] The continued expansion of the Wi-Fi hotspot plan, which reached 200 hotspots in September 2016, and the launch by Etecsa (the state telecom monopoly) of a pilot program to allow home Internet access for the first time to 2,000 customers in Old Havana in late-2016, along with its plans to offer Internet access via cellphone to paying customers for the first time in 2017, are bound to facilitate the growth and social impact of Cuba's independent media (Rodríguez Martinto 2016). The most recent official Cuban statistics indicate that 34.8 percent of the island's population had access to the Internet in 2015 (ONE 2016). This is nearly 20 points higher than the 15.9 percent that the government's own statistics office reported for 2010. The jump is partly the result of a drop in hourly connection rates from $4.50 to $2...

El discurso mediático en la prensa digital del baloncesto masculino y femenino en Huelva

<p>La presente investigación se centra en estudiar la transformación del discurso periodístico a través de un análisis semántico e interpretativo de las unidades hermenéuticas recogidas, atendiendo a un estudio cuanti-cualitativo de los tópicos y las figuras retóricas más repetidas encontradas en las noticias de la prensa digital de Huelva. El poder de los medios de comunicación en la conformación de la opinión pública y la construcción de la realidad generan un debate constante sobre la forma de redactar las informaciones periodísticas. Las diferencias de género, así como los aspectos positivos y negativos en la Liga masculina y femenina de baloncesto provocan que el discurso informativo en la prensa digital se convierta en un elemento de análisis. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que los medios online de Huelva, apuestan por las oraciones y códigos positivos a la hora de informar sobre los equipos masculinos y femeninos analizados.</p>

The emergence of Rebellious Digital Press in Chile: Divergence, Engagement and Impact

The emergence of Rebellious Digital Press in Chile: Divergence, Engagement and Impact

The emergence of Rebellious Digital Press in Chile: Divergence, Engagement and Impact

The emergence of Rebellious Digital Press in Chile: Divergence, Engagement and Impact

"The Semantics of Migration". Translation as Transduction: Remaking Meanings Across Modes

This paper adopts a multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) approach to analyse how meanings are produced and circulated in British major corporate digital media outlets via the multimodal notion of transduction (Kress 1997; Mavers 2011; Newfi eld 2014). Transduction is a form of translation from one semiotic system to another one, for example from verbal language to images and vice versa. However, transductions cannot be interpreted as mere transferrals from one resource to another one, and are here interpreted as multiplying meanings (Lemke 2002). As a case study, this paper will select some online columns from the Telegraph and the Guardian, drawing from a monitor corpus that is under construction to date and that includes multimodal data from the British digital press reporting on the “European migrant crisis” in 2015. The columns selected for this study deal with how people on the move are and/or should be labelled (e.g. Migrants? Refugees? Asylum seekers? Potential terrorists? See Gabrielatos, Baker 2008; Baker et al. 2008). The columns will be commented qualitatively from a multimodal critical discourse framework of analysis, with the goal of shedding light on how pictorial materials (e.g. pictures and diagrams) can amplify, reduce or even contradict what is argued in the verbal text. In the conclusive remarks, some refl ections will be presented with a view to possible future lines of research.

Commentary: Physicists without borders

Commentary: Physicists without borders

Los usos del documento en el periodismo digital hipervínculos y verdad en la cobertura del Cablegate

Since the beginning of modern journalism, the document has played a vital role in its veridiction strategies as provider of evidences according the rules of “objective” reporting. In this paper we focus on the changes in its status promoted by online journalism. Drawing on Bolter & Grusin’s remediation theory (1999), we analyze the uses of leaked documents made by the Spanish newspaper El Pais’s Cablegate coverage (the United States diplomatic cables leak). Our analysis suggests that the digital press has strengthened the document’s evidential value. In parallel to this, the data bases take an unusual centrality: in the emergent media ecosystem, the newspaper projects itself as archive. We conclude that this type of studies underlines how important it is for the analysis to include the semiotic dimension of interfaces together with theirs belief regimes, i. e. the attitudes which govern our expectations about the truthfulness and objectivity of digital media content.(Complete article in spanish language).

A brief analysis of digital journalism in Spain and its direction

Abstract This article offers a retrospective analysis of the more notable contributions about Spanish Digital Journalism. In this text, we review the changes in digital journalistic practice in Spain. We have brought together their most significant techno-cultural contributions, the social transformation of the reader of the digital press and the new debatable technological discoveries in Digital Journalism beginning from the boom in mobile equipment.

The EU ‘open Internet access’ regulation and its impact on the digital press

The long-awaited European Union ‘open Internet access’ regulation only hesitantly embraces the fiercely contested principle of net neutrality (equal treatment of Internet traffic). The debate has so far focused on the providers of audiovisual content as the most data-intensive form of service, while overlooking other providers similarly dependent on the Internet as their channel of distribution. This article focuses on one such provider, the digital press, and assesses the impact of the regulation on its essential public watchdog function.

Development of Image quality and reliability enhancing technology for 29 x 23 size digital inkjet press “KM-1”

We have developed a single-pass inkjet digital press AccurioJet KM-1, which can achieve off-set like high image quality with high productivity, 3,000 sheets per hour. To success in the commercial printing field, high image quality and high consistency are required to be achieved. For achieving high image quality, undesirable image defect such as banding should be improved. Therefore we have classified image banding into two, narrow banding (streak) and wide banding. To solve the narrow banding issue, we developed a unique halftoning and a nozzle compensation techniques by means of image simulation process. We also improved the wide banding issue by adjusting the dot size and the dot density. As for the high consistency, we developed a streak F detection system, which scans images on every sheet, checks the existence of streaks, and feeds the results back to the image compensation systems.

Development of a Small Built-in Spectrophotometric Sensor for Color Printers

A key requirement on color printers is maintaining accurate color reproduction in output images. Reproducing the same colors more precisely on the same printer or between different printers requires a color calibration process involving precise measurement of the output sheet's chromaticity and subsequent chromaticity adjustments. This sort of color calibration has conventionally been a complicated offline process, involving placing and measuring the output sheet in a standalone colorimeter and then editing and adjusting print data based on the colorimetric data. Usability improvement and space saving in this process have been needed. And with the growth seen in the digital color press market in recent years, expectation for the inclusion of more accurate colorimetric sensors and more sophisticated automatic color matching are increasing. In response, we developed a spectrophotometric sensor with excellent colorimetric precision that is small enough to fit inside a color printer. In this paper, we report on the optical technology that was a key to reducing the size of spectrophotometric sensor and examples of applications using the digital press device, imagePRESS C10000VP, which makes use of the developed sensor.

La presencia de la publicidad en la composición visual de los diarios online.

<p>El poder de la imagen es uno de los principales motores de cambio que se ha dado en la prensa con la aparición de internet y la evolución de las TIC. El presente estudio analiza cómo es la estructura que está utilizando la prensa digital y qué papel representa la publicidad respecto a los elementos textuales e icónicos que forman el periódico. El trabajo cuantifica y compara el papel de la imagen y la publicidad en las cabeceras online consideradas <em>nativas</em>, es decir aquellas que han nacido en la red, con las procedentes de un soporte impreso. El análisis revela que los diarios on-line nativos presentan mayor volumen publicitario en detrimento del contenido informativo. Al mismo tiempo se constata una mayor presencia de la información gráfica en los primeros. En conjunto puede afirmarse que el componte visual domina las portadas de ambos tipos de diarios digitales, si bien en los diarios nativos digitales este efecto está más agudizado.</p><h2><em>Abstract</em></h2><p>Visual strength is responsible for one of the mayor changes undergone by the digital press with Internet explosion and the increase of the Informational and Communicational Technologies. The present study analyzes the structure the digital press has taken and the role of the digital advertisement in the composition of their textual and iconic elements. The paper quantifies the picture representations volume and compares their presence on the digital natives papers with those coming from the traditional paper support. The results reveal that there is a mayor contribution of adverts on the native on-line press compare to the on-line paper arriving from the traditional media decreasing the information volume. At the same time the visual volume is boosted on the former compare to the digital media with a paper support. Altogether it can be said that visual component prompted the digital papers first page, being this effect enhanced on the native digital papers. </p><p> </p>

El movimiento estudiantil 2011 en la prensa chilena. ¿Pluralismo en la prensa digital?

Este artículo presenta resultados de dos proyectos de investigación que exploraron la cobertura del movimiento estudiantil 2011 realizada por dos cadenas de diarios de Chile: El Mercurio S.A.P y Diarios Mi Voz, en tres regiones del país. Dichas cadenas de medios corresponden a prensa impresa y digital, respectivamente. En las investigaciones se analizaron informaciones y fotografías que permitieron establecer transformaciones en las prácticas periodísticas así como similitudes en las formas de representar al movimiento estudiantil.

The Construction of the Mediterranean Refugee Problem from the Italian Digital Press (2013-2015): Emergencies in a Territory of Mobility

The Mediterranean Sea is a historical stage of mobilities and has been a witness to important movements of people and goods since ancient times. In this liquid territory, different social processes of globalization can be observed; yet, in recent years, it has been predominantly depicted as an emergency scene, a crossing platform for those in search of refuge in Europe. This scenario becomes connected to a set of dimensions of securitization and quests for control that redirect the debates about national and European responsibilities regarding maritime territories. In this article, this issue is addressed exploring the construction and development of the social problem of refugees in the Mediterranean, departing from a frame analysis of news items thematically filtered from the digital platforms of two Italian newspapers in 2013-2015. The problem is contextualized in time and content progression, deepening the framing of some critical events, and reframing the Mediterranean as a referent/emergent territory of mobility.

Comentarios sobre inmigración en tres periódicos en línea españoles: Aproximación a un discurso racista enmascarado

This article analyses the readers’ comments about four immigration affairs in three Spanish online newspapers, with the purpose of defining their level of racism and whether it is necessary to establish ethical codes or moderation guidelines for reader participation in the digital press. It is a qualitative approach to the ethics on the use of technology. Its novelty lies on the connection of this discussion with the topic of racism in order to make a linguistic approximation through discourse analysis. The study departs from van Dijk’s (2002) methodology to analyse a sample of all the comments about four controversial topics related to immigration on those journals (n=261). The theoretical framework reflects on the interactive tools of the new digital media and the ethical aspects of user generated content related to the racism and/or tolerant discourses. The results show that the xenophobic discourse is prominently present in the reader’s comments through directly racist opinions or through disguised discourse strategies. In comparison, not all the topics have raised the same reaction. In this sense, the security topic and the image of the cities cause more worry than the victims of sexual exploitation. According to this study, the moderation of the user generated content in the digital platforms is still something to be resolved and also the civic education on its use.

Mecanismos multimodales de focalización de la información en la prensa digital del campo científico y jurídico: la negrita

Para satisfacer el derecho a la información, la prensa digital recurre a cuatro sistemas semióticos (verbal, gráfico, matemático y tipográfico) con los que construye, organiza y jerarquiza contenidos y guía al lector en sus procesos interpretativos de la realidad periodística. La tipografía, intrínseca a la expresión verbal escrita, aporta su potencial de significado a través de sus rasgos distintivos y de dos principios semióticos: la connotación y la metáfora. En este artículo analizamos cómo la letra negrita, con su rasgo grosor de la letra, es usada en la prensa digital. Se analizan 60 noticias publicadas en España. Los periódicos digitales no coinciden en el tipo de segmento que resaltan en negrita. Hay también inconsistencias. Con todo, la negrita satisface en los textos periodísticos las tres metafunciones propuestas por Halliday (1978): ideacional, interpersonal y textual, a través de la macrofunción de resalte.

La calidad de la prensa europea de referencia analizada por académicos, profesionales y usuarios

The quality of the European reference press has been analysed from a triple perspective: academic, professional and from the viewpoint of the users. The authors of the research contrasted the opinions regarding press quality of prestigiously renowned professionals from Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain, with the vision which habitual users of the digital press hold on the subject. This data was then collated together with the results obtained by the HGH research group from the University of the Basque Country in relation to the evolution in the quality of the five daily reference papers in these same countries. The disparity between the reflected viewpoints underlines the urgent need for an indepth debate on this question which is threatening the future of journalism.

Aspectos de integración multimodal en la prensa digital de tema jurídico y tema científico

El paso de la prensa escrita a la prensa digital ha supuesto la posibilidad de dotar a las piezas informativas de una mayor multimodalidad, de manera que diversos modos semióticos concurren en la construcción del significado. En este trabajo queremos analizar en qué medida –y de qué manera– se establece la relación entre imágenes y textos en la prensa digital de especialidad de los ámbitos jurídico y científico; y si esta relación contribuye eficazmente en la cohesión multimodal de estas piezas informativas en tanto que complejos semánticos de carácter multimodal. Para ello, hemos aplicado el modelo intersemiótico propuesto por Martinec y Salway (2005) al análisis de la relación imagen-texto en 30 piezas informativas de la versión digital del periódico ABC. Con este modelo de análisis, queremos dar cuenta de esta relación en función del estatus que ocupan la imagen y el texto dentro de la pieza informativa en tanto que unidades semióticas en sí mismas y de la relación semántica entre ellas.

La influencia de las nuevas tecnologías en los hábitos de lectura: análisis de las noticias de "El País", "El Mundo" y "ABC" (2011)

En este texto se explica el cambio de hábitos que ha supuesto la lectura en formato digital. Se indican los factores que determinan la selección un formato u otro, al igual que la situación en la que se encuentra la lectura digital en España. Para ello, se analizan las noticias sobre este tema encontradas en los periódicos: ABC, El País y El Mundo durante el año 2011 -período relevante para la lectura digital- y se comparan con los resultados de las encuestas de AIMC, FGEE, etc., con el fin de sacar conclusiones certeras.