Sports journalism 3.0: the impact of the Semantic Web on news production
Sports journalism 3.0. Web 3.0. Digital Journalism. News. Semantic Web.
This work analyzes the impact of the Semantic Web, the third generation of the internet, on news production in sports journalism in Brazil. To this end, a series of theoretical discussions are established about Journalism, sports journalism and how the evolutionary cycles of Webs 1.0, 2.0, until the arrival of 3.0, promoted changes in production routines and their newsworthiness. Our research problem is based on the following question: how has sports journalism been impacted by digital changes, especially the establishment of Web 3.0, and how have these changes had an impact on news coverage and production routines? In this sense, in order to propose the concept of “sports journalism 3.0”, the study seeks to understand the processes of using Web 3.0 and analyze the contents and frameworks carried out in sports journalism based on the impact of the Semantic Web. To this end, this research uses the UOL Esporte and Itatiaia Esporte portals as objects of study, two different media in the production of sports news in Brazil. The study uses Content Analysis as a bibliographic research method, defended by Bardin (1977) and Herscovitz (2008), which is characterized by quantitative and qualitative; and data collection technique by collecting articles published throughout the second half of 2023 on both portals, in addition to interviews with journalists and managers who produced or were involved in the production of content in that time frame. In a scenario of systematic changes in the production of news that occur, in particular, from technological development, this work presents itself as a theoretical contribution to the Sociology of Journalism, Digital Journalism, Communication Science and studies on sports journalism and the application of the Semantic Web in this area.