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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
The first articles try to explain the characteristics that are inseparable from journalistic
information on Internet. An interesting article is “Locating information in an online
newspaper”, 1998, by Herre van Oostendorp and Christof van Niemwegen. In 1988,
Mark Deuze published an article referring to the general aspects of the
WebCommunicators. Three years later he published “Modelling the first generation of
news media on the World Wide Web”. How that declaration of intentions should be
achieved is something that Deuze does not make clear. Daniel Cunliffe, on the other
hand, indicates that:
A personalisable hyperspace might include the ability of the user to add links, new link
types and annotations to links, allowing them to impose their own structures over the
information space and create a hypertext based on personal associations rather than
more abstract general classifications.
The step to the study of the hypertext and journalistic information takes place at the
turn of the century. In Communication & Langages, number 129, 2001, two articles are
dedicated to precisely that. The first, signed by Valérie Jeanne-Perrier, is titled “Média
imprimé et média informatisé: le leurre de la complémentarité”. The second is by
Dominique Cotte and its intention is clearly revealed in the title: “De la Une à l’écran,
avatars du texte periodistique”. Bruno Giussani’s title is illustrative, although it does not
proceed beyond a mere declaration of intentions: “A new media tells different stories”.
This author finds contradictions between the results of the – still scarce – empirical
research and the expectations that the theory on cognitive structures invites the
humanities to develop, as Robert Huesca does well to recall.
Amongst the articles of the last five years directly centred on the relationship between
narration, hypertext and online journalism related to the modes of reading and
reception studies, those by Díaz Noci and Wilson, Hamzah and Khattab are
outstanding. There are besides articles concerning the possibilities offered by online
journalism for learning and for models of evaluation from the point of view of
documentation.
The determination of hypertextual structures, their hyperlinks and their potentialities is
a fairly widespread methodology. It has been applied in at least two articles by Ainara
Larrondo (Larrondo, 2005 and 2009) and by the group at the Universidad de Lomas de
Zamora (Argentina) (Canella and Tsuji, 2004). Many authors have pointed out that the
central element of the hypertextual structures is the link (Mielniczuk, Palacios, 2001).
There are many other case studies in several different countries around the world
(Obijiofo, 2009; Thurman; Myllylahti, 2009; Russell, 2007; Marshall, 2007) and articles
on the values of the journalistic profession on Internet (Carpenter, 2008; Thorsen,
2008; Chang; Lee; Pan, 2006).
The comparative perspective has been notably cultivated both with respect to the
narration of news stories (Hong; McClung; Park, 2008) and with respect to content
(Quandt, 2008; Dimitrova and Neznazki, 2006; Carpenter, 2010; Deuze, 2003; Deuze,
Neusberger and Paulussen, 2004). Nor is there any lack of those who relativize the
hopes deposited in the possibilities of the hypertext (Salaverría, 2005; Steensen, 2010)
and interactivity (Boczkowski and De Santos 2007; Domingo, 2008), which later
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