Claudia Mellado Ruiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 8758632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Mellado Ruiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia Mellado |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruiz |
| SIGNATURE | RUIZ C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9281-1526 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The geographic frame matters (too): How journalistic role performance varies in domestic, foreign, and mixed news
The growing body of comparative studies on journalistic role performance has generally neglected the geographic frame of the news. Based on a content analysis of 145,817 news items published in 365 outlets (print, online, radio, and television) in 37 countries, we compare the performance of six journalistic roles in four geographic frame categories: domestic, foreign, and mixed news (domestic news with foreign involvement and foreign news with do…
Mapping Journalistic Role Performance Across Five Arab Countries
This study applies a media systems approach to examine the performance of journalistic roles in the news of five Arab countries: Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The content analysis of 13,299 news stories in newspapers, radio, television, and online sites revealed the practice of loyal-facilitator, watchdog, interventionist, service, civic, and infotainment roles is a result of the intersection of several factors. Ove…
Pistas para restablecer la confianza en el periodismo: Perspectiva de audiencias y profesionales en Chile
Este estudio examina cómo las expectativas de las audiencias para recuperar la confianza en el periodismo se alinean (o no) con las de los periodistas. Para ello, se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a 30 periodistas y 64 usuarios de noticias en Santiago de Chile. Los hallazgos revelan que, aunque ambos grupos coinciden en reconocer que la confianza en los medios ha disminuido significativamente y ello afecta de manera negativa la recepció…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Happiness in Journalism
Publications on the emotional/psychological challenges of doing journalism have appeared in the field of psychology for the past two decades, but there is a lack of studies that stretch the analysis to the role of j-schools and journalism educators in addressing the lack of trauma literacy teaching. This chapter explores what educators can do to help students cope with trauma that they are likely to experience during their studies and in their fu…
Performance of journalistic professional roles in digital native media news in Spain: Toward a journalistic micro-culture of its own
On the basis of the argument that media platforms generate journalistic micro-cultures and that the nature of journalistic roles is contextual, the possible existence of a journalistic model of digital native media coherent with its own professional culture is addressed. Through a content analysis of a sample of 2,729 news items published in four Spanish digital native media, the presence of six professional roles (interventionist, watchdog, loya…
Galileo, a data platform for viewing news on social networks
This article aims to introduce Galileo, a platform for extracting and organizing news media data on social networks. Galileo integrates publications made on the main social networks used in the information ecosystem, namely Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Currently, the system includes 97 media outlets from nine countries: Brazil, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Galileo uses a Twitter API an…
Roles and digital identities on Twitter and Instagram: An ethnographic study of Chilean journalists
On the basis of a digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with Chilean journalists, this study analyzes how news professionals reinterpret and redefine their professional roles on Twitter and Instagram through their practices and discourse, building different digital identities. The results of our analyses show that Twitter and Instagram strengthen and render a more complex construction of journalists’ digital selves, allowing them to build a…
Fuentes informativas en tiempos de Covid-19: Cómo los medios en Chile narraron la pandemia a través de sus redes sociales
This study analyzes the use of social media sources by nine news outlets in Chile in regard to Covid-19. We identified the most frequently used types of sources, their evolution over time, and the differences between the various social media platforms used by the Chilean media during the pandemic. Specifically, we extracted 838,618 messages published by Chilean media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter between January and December 2020. An initia…
How Chilean Journalists Use Social Media: Digital Transformation and New Forms of Visibility and Identity Creation
Based on the content analysis of 1,400 Twitter and Instagram accounts, this study identified the social media profiles of 792 Chilean journalists from national media outlets to describe their visibility and activity levels and how they construct their identities. Our results show that although Chilean journalists have a solid digital presence, they use social media platforms differently, deploying various identity creation strategies and new jour…
Assessing Journalistic Role Performance Cross-Nationally
This chapter focuses on the general methodology of the study. Specifically, it describes the comparative design as well as the mixed-method approach followed by our project, discussing the countries sampled, the different stages of our content analysis, the survey conducted with journalists, elements of reliability and validity, and the social-level and external indicators used. This chapter also aims to build reflection and new spaces for dialog…
Do digital platforms really make a difference in content? Mapping journalistic role performance in Chilean print and online news
Previous research has largely explored the differences and similarities between print and digital media in terms of news cycles and specific content characteristics. However, fewer studies have addressed the extent to which the media platform accounts for differences in the performance of key journalistic roles. Based on a content analysis of 1519 stories from Chilean print and online news outlets, this study found that, while media affordances d…
Journalistic Role Performance: A New Research Agenda in a Digital and Global Media Environment
Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, mainly due to political, criminal, and terrorist forces that sought to co-opt or silence the media in their struggle for power (Freedom House, 2016). As of 2015, only one in seven people around the world lived in a country that had a free media system, a country in which the coverage of news was robust, and the safety of journalists guaranteed. The rest have been living in cou…
Gremio, democracia y asociatividad: El Colegio de Periodistas de Chile ante los comunicadores de hoy
The low associability around Colegio de Periodistas, states serious doubts about the real democratic vigilance and influence into the public life of a weakened guild. In fact, the journalists' associability is down compared to similar guilds, whit just a 2.9% to the total of graduates in the Eighth Region during last five years, similar quantity in the rest of the country. This reality implicates a responsibility from the Colegio de Periodistas, …
Do digital platforms really make a difference in content? Mapping journalistic role performance in Chilean print and online news
Previous research has largely explored the differences and similarities between print and digital media in terms of news cycles and specific content characteristics. However, fewer studies have addressed the extent to which the media platform accounts for differences in the performance of key journalistic roles. Based on a content analysis of 1519 stories from Chilean print and online news outlets, this study found that, while media affordances d…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Roles and digital identities on Twitter and Instagram: An ethnographic study of Chilean journalists
On the basis of a digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with Chilean journalists, this study analyzes how news professionals reinterpret and redefine their professional roles on Twitter and Instagram through their practices and discourse, building different digital identities. The results of our analyses show that Twitter and Instagram strengthen and render a more complex construction of journalists’ digital selves, allowing them to build a…
How Chilean Journalists Use Social Media: Digital Transformation and New Forms of Visibility and Identity Creation
Based on the content analysis of 1,400 Twitter and Instagram accounts, this study identified the social media profiles of 792 Chilean journalists from national media outlets to describe their visibility and activity levels and how they construct their identities. Our results show that although Chilean journalists have a solid digital presence, they use social media platforms differently, deploying various identity creation strategies and new jour…
Performance of journalistic professional roles in digital native media news in Spain: Toward a journalistic micro-culture of its own
On the basis of the argument that media platforms generate journalistic micro-cultures and that the nature of journalistic roles is contextual, the possible existence of a journalistic model of digital native media coherent with its own professional culture is addressed. Through a content analysis of a sample of 2,729 news items published in four Spanish digital native media, the presence of six professional roles (interventionist, watchdog, loya…
Fuentes informativas en tiempos de Covid-19: Cómo los medios en Chile narraron la pandemia a través de sus redes sociales
This study analyzes the use of social media sources by nine news outlets in Chile in regard to Covid-19. We identified the most frequently used types of sources, their evolution over time, and the differences between the various social media platforms used by the Chilean media during the pandemic. Specifically, we extracted 838,618 messages published by Chilean media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter between January and December 2020. An initia…
Gremio, democracia y asociatividad: El Colegio de Periodistas de Chile ante los comunicadores de hoy
The low associability around Colegio de Periodistas, states serious doubts about the real democratic vigilance and influence into the public life of a weakened guild. In fact, the journalists' associability is down compared to similar guilds, whit just a 2.9% to the total of graduates in the Eighth Region during last five years, similar quantity in the rest of the country. This reality implicates a responsibility from the Colegio de Periodistas, …
Journalistic Role Performance: A New Research Agenda in a Digital and Global Media Environment
Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, mainly due to political, criminal, and terrorist forces that sought to co-opt or silence the media in their struggle for power (Freedom House, 2016). As of 2015, only one in seven people around the world lived in a country that had a free media system, a country in which the coverage of news was robust, and the safety of journalists guaranteed. The rest have been living in cou…
Do digital platforms really make a difference in content? Mapping journalistic role performance in Chilean print and online news
Previous research has largely explored the differences and similarities between print and digital media in terms of news cycles and specific content characteristics. However, fewer studies have addressed the extent to which the media platform accounts for differences in the performance of key journalistic roles. Based on a content analysis of 1519 stories from Chilean print and online news outlets, this study found that, while media affordances d…
Assessing Journalistic Role Performance Cross-Nationally
This chapter focuses on the general methodology of the study. Specifically, it describes the comparative design as well as the mixed-method approach followed by our project, discussing the countries sampled, the different stages of our content analysis, the survey conducted with journalists, elements of reliability and validity, and the social-level and external indicators used. This chapter also aims to build reflection and new spaces for dialog…
Fuentes informativas en tiempos de Covid-19: Cómo los medios en Chile narraron la pandemia a través de sus redes sociales
This study analyzes the use of social media sources by nine news outlets in Chile in regard to Covid-19. We identified the most frequently used types of sources, their evolution over time, and the differences between the various social media platforms used by the Chilean media during the pandemic. Specifically, we extracted 838,618 messages published by Chilean media on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter between January and December 2020. An initia…
How Chilean Journalists Use Social Media: Digital Transformation and New Forms of Visibility and Identity Creation
Based on the content analysis of 1,400 Twitter and Instagram accounts, this study identified the social media profiles of 792 Chilean journalists from national media outlets to describe their visibility and activity levels and how they construct their identities. Our results show that although Chilean journalists have a solid digital presence, they use social media platforms differently, deploying various identity creation strategies and new jour…
Galileo, a data platform for viewing news on social networks
This article aims to introduce Galileo, a platform for extracting and organizing news media data on social networks. Galileo integrates publications made on the main social networks used in the information ecosystem, namely Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Currently, the system includes 97 media outlets from nine countries: Brazil, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Galileo uses a Twitter API an…
Roles and digital identities on Twitter and Instagram: An ethnographic study of Chilean journalists
On the basis of a digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with Chilean journalists, this study analyzes how news professionals reinterpret and redefine their professional roles on Twitter and Instagram through their practices and discourse, building different digital identities. The results of our analyses show that Twitter and Instagram strengthen and render a more complex construction of journalists’ digital selves, allowing them to build a…
Happiness in Journalism
Publications on the emotional/psychological challenges of doing journalism have appeared in the field of psychology for the past two decades, but there is a lack of studies that stretch the analysis to the role of j-schools and journalism educators in addressing the lack of trauma literacy teaching. This chapter explores what educators can do to help students cope with trauma that they are likely to experience during their studies and in their fu…
Performance of journalistic professional roles in digital native media news in Spain: Toward a journalistic micro-culture of its own
On the basis of the argument that media platforms generate journalistic micro-cultures and that the nature of journalistic roles is contextual, the possible existence of a journalistic model of digital native media coherent with its own professional culture is addressed. Through a content analysis of a sample of 2,729 news items published in four Spanish digital native media, the presence of six professional roles (interventionist, watchdog, loya…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
The geographic frame matters (too): How journalistic role performance varies in domestic, foreign, and mixed news
The growing body of comparative studies on journalistic role performance has generally neglected the geographic frame of the news. Based on a content analysis of 145,817 news items published in 365 outlets (print, online, radio, and television) in 37 countries, we compare the performance of six journalistic roles in four geographic frame categories: domestic, foreign, and mixed news (domestic news with foreign involvement and foreign news with do…
Mapping Journalistic Role Performance Across Five Arab Countries
This study applies a media systems approach to examine the performance of journalistic roles in the news of five Arab countries: Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The content analysis of 13,299 news stories in newspapers, radio, television, and online sites revealed the practice of loyal-facilitator, watchdog, interventionist, service, civic, and infotainment roles is a result of the intersection of several factors. Ove…
Pistas para restablecer la confianza en el periodismo: Perspectiva de audiencias y profesionales en Chile
Este estudio examina cómo las expectativas de las audiencias para recuperar la confianza en el periodismo se alinean (o no) con las de los periodistas. Para ello, se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a 30 periodistas y 64 usuarios de noticias en Santiago de Chile. Los hallazgos revelan que, aunque ambos grupos coinciden en reconocer que la confianza en los medios ha disminuido significativamente y ello afecta de manera negativa la recepció…
Political science (13 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Digital media (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works)