Information Quality in Latin American Digital Native Media: Analysis Based on Structured Dimensions and Indicators

• Published in: Media and communication (Lisboa) Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 135 - 145
• Main Authors: Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Claudia, Rivera-Rogel, Diana, Romero-Rodriguez, Luis M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lisbon Cogitatio Press 01-04-2020; Cogitatio
• Subjects: Analysis; Classification; Digital literacy; digital media; Disinformation; fake news; Indicators; Information management; information quality; Journalism; latin america; Media; News; Taxonomy; Ecuador; Colombia; Venezuela; Uruguay; Mexico; Spain; Latin America
• ISSN: 2183-2439; 2183-2439
• DOI: 10.17645/mac.v8i2.2657

The current communicative ecosystem has profoundly transformed journalistic work and the media, generating with great eagerness the emergence of digital native media that do not follow the logic of their conventional peers. Although the advent of these media is not entirely negative, as they create multiple voices that contribute to pluralism, their quality has undoubtedly been questioned on several academic fronts. This work analyzes the most important Latin American digital native media by number of accesses (traffic), using a taxonomy of evaluation of dimensions of the informative quality, in which aspects such as informative sources, uses of international news agencies, correction of contents and factuality levels, ideological plurality in their opinion contents, among others, are taken into consideration. Of the emerging results, the ‘use of statistical indicators’ was the least rated (32.5%), mainly due to a lack of data journalism in the media studied. It is also worth noting that the indicator ‘comments and monitoring’ obtained the second-lowest rating, indicating an absence of conversation between the media and its audience through the comments section of each content.