ABSTRACT

This article draws on the case of La Gordiloca, a Facebook-based journalist from Laredo, TX, to interrogate the increasing role of social media within news-making processes. Applauded by The New York Times as a paragon of twenty-first century journalism and under scrutiny from local businesses and law enforcement for defamation and misuse of official information, she occupies a space between digital journalist and social media celebrity. Combining a content analysis with focus groups of Laredo residents, we argue that her work reflects a constitutive paradox unique to social media journalism: Whereas new technologies expand opportunities for citizens to participate in the process of news production, they also enable the corrosion of norms/practices that oriented previous forms of news production.

抽象的

本文借鉴了来自德克萨斯州拉雷多的Facebook记者La Gordiloca的情况，以审视社交媒体在新闻制作过程中日益重要的作用。她被《纽约时报》称赞为二十一世纪新闻的典范，并因诽谤和滥用官方信息而受到当地企业和执法机构的审查，她在数字记者和社交媒体名人之间占据着一席之地。将内容分析与拉雷多居民的焦点小组相结合，我们认为她的工作反映了社交媒体新闻特有的构成性悖论：尽管新技术为公民扩大了参与新闻制作过程的机会，但它们也使规范/以以前的新闻生产形式为导向的实践。