Abstract
Smartphones play a significant role in the set of disruptive innovations that have emerged in recent years. The consumption of information from smartphones has become the common way of accessing news and the media is betting heavily on this sector. The popularization of social media has been key, which has caused a mutation in the type of journalistic content, increasingly accessible, ubiquitous, personalized, and identified with the user and/or with the environment. This chapter addresses the challenges of mobile journalism from the point of view of content production. The text has the aim of detecting the professionals technological skills and the state of implementation of mobile journalism in the current media context. It is analyzed how digital media integrate mobile technologies in their journalistic routines and it is offered a categorization of emerging formats and narratives in this context.
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This chapter is part of the R&D project Digital-native media in Spain: Strategies, competencies, social involvement and (re)definition of practices in journalistic production and diffusion (PID2021-122534OB-C21), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”.
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Silva-Rodríguez, A., Sixto-García, J., Rodríguez-Vázquez, AI., Westlund, O. (2023). Models for Mobile Communication and Effects on the Boundaries of Journalism. In: Negreira-Rey, MC., Vázquez-Herrero, J., Sixto-García, J., López-García, X. (eds) Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media. Studies in Big Data, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43926-1_14
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