2021
DOI: 10.3390/journalmedia2010005
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News Organizations in Colombia Building Consensus through Social Media: A Case of Digital-Native La Silla Vacía

Abstract: Correlation of different segments of society is a major function of mass media and works by broadening individual’s perspectives and creating common ground between these different segments Little is known about how consensus building works in the networked, digital environment or how it works in Latin America. This study explores the premise on a social media page from a digital-native news organization in Colombia, La Silla Vacía, on the salient issue of Venezuela. It found that the news organization did prov… Show more

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“…The movable boundaries of these networks rely on the competition of values and interests as they intersect these different levels of localities such as the local, the regional, the national and the transnational (Castells, 2013). Communication and information flow across and within these different levels of localities, interacting in a hybrid and multilayered influence structure (Higgins Joyce, 2011; Kraidy, 2005). If the printing press at an earlier point and television of the 50s and 60s have been instrumental in the creation of ‘imagined communities’ that paved the way for national identities and nationalism (Anderson, 2006), the digital technology paves way to new kinds of dispersed imagined communities, bound by virtual communication and virtual spaces (Beetham, 2006).…”
Section: Literature Review and Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The movable boundaries of these networks rely on the competition of values and interests as they intersect these different levels of localities such as the local, the regional, the national and the transnational (Castells, 2013). Communication and information flow across and within these different levels of localities, interacting in a hybrid and multilayered influence structure (Higgins Joyce, 2011; Kraidy, 2005). If the printing press at an earlier point and television of the 50s and 60s have been instrumental in the creation of ‘imagined communities’ that paved the way for national identities and nationalism (Anderson, 2006), the digital technology paves way to new kinds of dispersed imagined communities, bound by virtual communication and virtual spaces (Beetham, 2006).…”
Section: Literature Review and Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Currently, Venezuela has a 28/100 on the Freedom House Freedom of the Net (2020 score, which indicates a significant lack of infrastructure reliability and within country penetration (Venezuela 1992; Venezuela: Country Profile n.d.). One particular website had been developed to defy the government's hold on free press-Armando.info (Otis 2018), and Venezuelans have also turned to social media to help create public discourse and provide information (Said Hung and Segado-Boj 2018;Joyce and Macedo 2021). Polls by Delphos showed 16.1% use social media for political information and the Hinterlands survey claimed 18% trust these social media outlets (Garsd 2018;Harwell and Zuñiga 2019;Social Media Stats Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela n.d.;Venezuela 1992).…”
Section: Repercussions and Implicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%