Open AccessWorking in a developing communication space. Facebook and Twitter as journalistic tools for European information pure-player websites
Author(s) -
Florian Tixier
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
brazilian journalism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1981-9854
pISSN - 1808-4079
DOI - 10.25200/bjr.v10n1.2014.631
Subject(s) - european union , function (biology) , context (archaeology) , the internet , space (punctuation) , promotion (chess) , political science , work (physics) , public relations , social media , knowledge management , world wide web , business , computer science , engineering , geography , politics , mechanical engineering , archaeology , evolutionary biology , law , biology , economic policy , operating system
Since the creation of the European Union, European information has been a very important issue of communication. Numerous Europe-specialized information websites were born in the first decade of the 21st century, thus creating a European informational landscape on the Internet. In a context of journalistic technological and economical evolutions, journalists have to adapt rapidly their ways of working. A new function in terms of management of socio-numeric networks has appeared: community management. This research aims at analyzing the uses of Facebook and Twitter in the community management of online European information websites. We will be specifically observing how information makers integrate these technologies, which originally were not part of the journalistic work patterns, and how they use these new means of communication to circulate European ideas through self-promotion practices.