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It was observed that there is a change in the traditional criteria of newsworthiness and
production routines of online and offline newsrooms with the inclusion of new criteria,
such as localism and the instantaneously (Da Silva, 2007, 2008a, 2008b) in the running
towards reporting before, with the velocity induced by the continuous production flow of
the post-mass functions of the new media (Lemos, 2007), represented by the Internet. "
This is a new development in journalism that adds new information to the news story in
a building that combines immediacy and location through the mobile communication
devices (Schneider, 2007).
The emergence of multiple platforms tend to reinforce this feature of "live" to the facts,
through the use of tools such as microblogging, moblogs, and stream channels as
Ustream, Justin.tv, Kyte.tv, Cover It Live, Mogulus Live Broadcast, Flixwagon, among
others. According to Da Silva (2008), moblogs and microblogging represent the
movement towards new formats for journalism both in relation to the demand for
production as in the dissemination and receipt of content.
Schneider (2007) notes that the mobile production can be intensified especially in the
citizen journalism, taking into account that mobile technologies such as digital cameras
and mobile phones are in the hands of many people around the world. For him, video
coverage in real time (streaming) through the mobile means the strengthening of
participatory journalism to citizens without reliance on the media in the process.
To Santaella (2008), mobile communication (mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones,
notebooks) is the fifth generation of communication technology development, preceded
by the fourth generation - networks telecomputing (cyberculture, Portatel, personal
computers), the third generation - culture medium (cable TV, fax, video recorder,
walkman), the second generation - electro-electronic (radio, television), and the first
generation - electro-mechanical (photo, telegraph, press , Film).
Castells (1999) in the 90’s defended the existence of a "network society" with
information technology originated in the 1970's with the miniaturization and a series of
inventions that have made computers more portable and more powerful, which later
provided the rise of mobile digital technology, resulting in a "mobile network society"
(Castells, 1999).
According Schneider (2007), the prospects for development are outlined by the double
convergence of mobile Internet (access to digital media) and TV (video streaming and
TV news in real time). The convergence of mobile device with digital radio (streaming
audio) is certainly more technologically accessible than the TV, but it is still under study
and development as a business initiative depends on the success of digital radio and
audio content distribution via phone (MP3).
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