Connected Social Media: collaborative production of information of social relevance in digital technological environment

Abstract

The connected social media provide a new space for the production and distribution of information by professionals of journalism and network users. However, new professional functions must be incorporated to the processes of news production – the objective is to render productive, in the journalistic sense, the network environment. For doing that, the systems that make possible the insertion, the sharing, the evaluation, the recommendation and the distribution of content must be technologically structured. The professionals of journalism must obtain new abilities in order to make possible the survival of their profession.