Uso de Discord en los medios de comunicación. Exploración de las posibilidades de la plataforma Discord como herramienta para el periodismo

Sánchez Muñoz, Gemma (1); García Casado Isabel (2); Varona Aramburu David (3)

Publication year:

2024

Publication place:

Donostia ; Leioa

Characteristics:

BIBLID [eISSN 1988-3935 (2024), 20; 139-162]; on line

ISSN:

1137-4462; eISSN: 1988-3935

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Summary

The social platform Discord has emerged as one of the preferred platforms among younger audiences. Although it originated to provide a social dimension to the gaming experience, it has evolved into a tool used for many other purposes.

In this context, journalism has begun to explore this terrain to understand the possibilities it offers and how it can be leveraged to media advantage. These initial steps of journalism on Discord motivate this research, which proposes a preliminary approach to this phenomenon among media outlets.

The objective is to map its implementation in newsrooms and describe its current uses and potential for the journalistic industry. The study aims to understand how this platform is utilized to distribute journalistic content and generate interest around it. Therefore, an analysis has been conducted on how the studied media employ the resources and elements that differentiate Discord. Of particular note is the intense interaction carried out by the media outlets examined.