‘Keeping news alive in Venezuela’: Using social media as tactical media

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Global Media and Communication Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI:10.1177/17427665231157282

Paromita Pain, Ezequiel Korin

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Abstract

Venezuela leads Latin America with the largest number of imprisoned journalists and extreme government-led media censorship. Our in-depth interviews with 25 Venezuelan journalists reveal that assisting journalists to combat government control are social media and technology platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter, which, in Venezuela, have moved beyond their ability to share and mobilise, and have become tactical media, the media of crisis criticism and opposition.

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“在委内瑞拉保持新闻鲜活”:使用社交媒体作为战术媒体

委内瑞拉是拉丁美洲被监禁记者人数最多的国家，政府对媒体进行极端的审查。我们对25名委内瑞拉记者的深度采访显示，协助记者对抗政府控制的是社交媒体和技术平台，如WhatsApp、Facebook和Twitter，这些平台在委内瑞拉已经超越了分享和动员的能力，成为了战术媒体，危机批评和反对的媒体。

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期刊介绍： Global Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed journal launched in April 2005 as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment. As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope. With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal offers a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.