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New Technologies and New Experts

An Insight on the Idea of Expertise in Relation with New Media

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Have new media and new technologies brought new conditions to what we understand as media expertise? How do these apply to journalism? The traditional idea of expertise is being contested in relation to the changes brought by new technologies. Some processes in the production of information have been shortened by new media, making epistemological expertise and technical expertise converge in the definition of the multimedia journalist. The relation between the author and the public has also morphed the meaning of authorship, now that the audience plays an active role in the stories. The state of the expert as an authority determines the professional relation that governs the newsroom; in a moment where the multimedia journalist harnesses a larger responsibility in the stories, this must be managed through dialogue and recognition by higher-ranked professionals. With all, the expert acts as such when it uses its knowledge and skill in order to adapt.

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  1. Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Avda. de Castelao, s/n. Campus Norte, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Martín Vaz Álvarez & Xosé Pereira Fariña

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Baixo Mondego, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Nova IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  4. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  5. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Álvarez, M.V., Fariña, X.P. (2017). New Technologies and New Experts. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56541-5_7

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