Jornalismo baseado em localização : uma análise das potencialidades na produção e no consumo de notícias

Abstract

The location-based services (SBL) represent the combination of mobile communication technologies, internet and geographic information systems. This triad has modified the relationship with people, with physical places and cyberspace. Journalism has also been impacted in regard to content production and consumption, and some initiatives already seek to take advantage of the potentialities inherent to the SBL, such as the better understanding of the context of facts and users and the possibility of offering targeted content. Among the concepts and authors studied stand out: the space concepts (Certeau and Heidegger), cyberspace (Lemos and Santaella), online journalism (Canavilhas and Palácios) and geolocation (Brimicombe and Li), examined under the definitions offered by the Medium Theory (Innis, McLuhan and Meyrowitz), aiming to understand their background and history to the present day and, based on case studies, to verify what is being done in journalism based on location at the present time and to examine their current and future potential.