La comunicación científica en la prensa digital española: radiografía de sus fuentes informativas
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The evaluation of the informative sources is
essential to measure the quality of the journalistic
work, especially in scientific communication,
which requires a deepening in one
of the knowledge plots. Health, Science and
Technology are the sections in which we are
going to analyze in detail how the number,
characteristics, origin, and initiative of the
sources affect the journalistic quality and the
professional rigor of scientific production.
This article presents the results of an empiric
study about the news published in five newspapers
and five new mass media, in order to
analyze the quality of scientific communication
in the Internet age. In conclusion, new
tools, techniques and methodologies contribute
to create a more rigorous scientific
communication, in which qualified sources
predominate and where the contextualization
of the information added value to it, however,
it’s observed, especially in new mass media,
that Science magazines occupy a prominent
place within the sources, which leads to a certain uniformity and homogenization of the
contents, as well as a certain laxity on the
part of the newspapers in their commitment
to specialized profiles