Informação jornalística no Twitter: o estudo de caso da Burning Sun.

Abstract

This research aims to understand how Twitter informs a brazilian audience of a specific niche about international journalistic news, intending to comprehend how the social media users participates on informing and disseminating news in which the too segmented topics don't receive a deep coverage on brazilian traditional journalistic newspapers. To do that, it was done a case study of the night-club Burning Sun scandal, from South Korea, using the method of Content Analysis on news published in traditional brazilian newspapers and on tweets. The research uses theories about participatory culture, niche culture and the modern business patterns for journalism, focusing on social media influences. The research concluded that the Twitter users takes on diverse independent roles as editors, curators, commentarists and disseminators, reshaping themselves in a way that gives them more protagonism in the act of informing, mostly when there's lack of coverage in tradicional newspapers. Therefore, the users' role resembles types of non-traditional journalism such as citizen journalism, open-source journalism, collaborative journalism and participatory journalism.