A CONVERGÊNCIA JORNALÍSTICA E AS REDES SOCIAIS: possibilidades e impactos

Abstract

This study deals with the evolution of journalism until its digital age, by facing the changes brought about by the internet and by the new demands of its fulfillment in reporting through multiplatforms, mainly in social networks, demanding that its professionals adapt and a new multitasking profile. In its academic-scientific aspects, the construction of this study was justified, given the possibility of gathering information that explains the journalistic conjuncture, making it accessible to students and professionals of journalism, in addition to society as a whole. The objective was to identify the possibilities and impacts faced by journalistic convergence to social networks. This was accomplished through the methodology of bibliographic review, associated with the review of contemporary literature. It was concluded that social networks are a new form of communication for journalism, based on information based on collaboration, propagating content with more speed, volume and breadth. However, this new format of news constitution, and also the ease of its propagation and sharing, favors the alteration of its contents, turning into misinformation, spreading fake news in society and breaking with the journalistic purpose of reporting truths.