Periodismo convergente: una herramienta que informa o desinforma. Paro Nacional Ecuatoriano 2019

Abstract

This academic article has the line of research Communication and Citizenship with the Thematic Axis: Media and Citizenship, since, the participation of people is immersed. The techniques used to obtain the results of this research were, interviews with representatives of each digital media, both Wambra Radio and La Posta, in order to collect information about the role of each of them in this period of social protests and how each one was managed, also, opinions of experts in the field of communication, who provided definitions and conceptions of convergent journalism and thus be able to contrast with the work done by the Twitter accounts @wambraEc and @LaPosta.

The objective of this investigation was to analyze whether convergent journalism in the period of the “Paro Nacional Ecuatoriano 2019”. Since convergent journalism became a vital activity within traditional journalism, since, with the advent of new technologies, it stopped broadcasting news through traditional media such as television and radio; to turn journalism into a digital convergence where the journalist has the possibility of producing news and transmitting it through free digital platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, through computers, tablet and cell phones, causing the reader not to be interested in knowing to which media the news belongs and in the same way the users lost credibility in these new media.