News and Expanded Content: Collaborative Information on Diario de Pernambuco and NE10 Facebook Pages.
Digital Journalism; News and Expanded Content; Collaborative Production; Facebook; Social Networks on the Internet.
This research analyzes the construction and diffusion of news on Facebook, in addition to the re-articulation and expansion of information on fanpages of media vehicles on this social network platform, considering the interactive and participatory dynamics between journalism and the public. The theoretical path addresses cooperative production on the internet, digital journalism and news. The research corpus is composed of journalistic and the public content about the 2018 Elections in Pernambuco, published on the pages of Diario de Pernambuco and NE10 on Facebook. Data were evaluated in the light of qualitative content analysis. Five categories of analysis were identified: Repositioning of the Public; Information Networks Between Journalism and the Public; Textual and Spatial Reordering of News; Online Attributes as a Means of Extension of the Digital Narrative; Dynamism of Information. The results show a redesign of the news. It becomes fragmented, hypermediatic, non-linear, multimedia, multidirectional and, notably, collaborative, associating professional content (reordered in its structure and dynamics) to expanded content (material and values from the public) in the social environment of the page or expanded news environment (interactive space of the fanpage physically and socially linked to the news). In an amplified conception, the informative product is translated into professional news, produced in journalistic newsrooms, and into expanded content, generated by the public in the interactive area of the posts. Together, professional and non-professional elements form the information set in the relational environment of Facebook.