GENERATIONAL CONFIGURATIONS OF GRANTING TRUST TO SOURCES IN DIGITAL SOCIAL NETWORKS
Journalistic practices; Actor-Network Theory; Controversy; Event; Reliability; Journalistic sources.
This research presents a study in which the generational perspective for granting reliability to sources in sociotechnical networks is investigated based on the Actor-Network Theory (Latour, 2012), considering journalistic practice as controversy. Starting from interviews conducted with 28 professionals from Diario de Pernambuco and Jornal do Commercio, we assume the role of the ante-cartographer, focusing on verifying the uncertainties that permeate the network actors that constitute the controversy (journalists, networks and sources) as a way to understand the phenomenon. In addition to Plesner (2009), Latour (2012, 2013), Law (2021) and Lemos (2013), the investigation is based on different contributions on journalistic sources (Pinto, 2000; Chaparro, 1994, 2014; McPherson, 2016; Nordheim; Boczek; Koppers, 2018; Lage, 2019; Buduchev, 2019; Malling, 2021); on credibility in journalism (Lisbon; Benetti, 2015, 2017; Mendes; Amaral, 2019; Gould; Rocha, 2019; Mota, 2020; Costa; Simas, 2021), on professional daily life and generational profile of journalists (Adghirni, 2005, 2017; Figaro, 2014; Linne, 2014; Barcellos; Gil, 2018; Pereira, 2019; Broersma; Singer, 2020; Guilhermano; Fonseca, 2021). Among the results obtained, we highlight: generational prejudices among professionals; the interference of platforms in the selection and coverage of events; the concept of journalistic reliability and its dependence on momentary factors; and the event as a controversy resulting from journalistic practice.