Credibility and cyberculture: the journalism on the web

Abstract

The emergency of new tools on the web and the practices of internet users questions the legitimacy of the journalist as the only issuing of “interesting news”, putting a serious crisis in the Cultural Industry model. In one hand technology helps to diffuse minorities, on the other hand the online control limits the circulation and evidences how much non – human elements firstly out of journalism, competing to determine the news production/ circulation. So, the intention of this article is, from certain episodes of Jornadas de Junho de 2013, taking some considerations about changes in the contemporaneous journalism – also paying attention to the possibility conditions of non-human agency and the effects that such agency brings in the constructions of journalistic credibility. If the modern days crisis shows truths are multiple, ciberculture points to possibility conditions that make them stronger.