The data, APIs and toolkit in the production of information of social relevance (news)
This paper aims to analyze the current context of Application Programming Interface (API) technology, with focus in External API (Public API or Open API) by news organizations. The adoption of API has been considered a technological strategy that introduces innovation processes in media groups. This...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/19811 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/19811 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | News Journalism API Noticias Periodismo Notícias Jornalismo |
| Sumario: | This paper aims to analyze the current context of Application Programming Interface (API) technology, with focus in External API (Public API or Open API) by news organizations. The adoption of API has been considered a technological strategy that introduces innovation processes in media groups. This technological approach allows the public access to data, increase the distribution of journalistic information and transparency which improves the credibility of organizations. However, there is not a pattern strategic in the use of API adopted by news organizations and the external developers have used various technologies, named toolkit, to store, process, analyze and visualize data. The study cases were The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR and, ESPN. |
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