Análisis del clickbaiting en los titulares de la prensa española contemporánea. Estudio de caso: diario El País en Facebook
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La calidad del periodismo digital se encuentra actualmente en riesgo debido a la alta
competencia existente por obtener tráfico desde las redes sociales. Así, resulta cada vez más frecuente
la inserción de titulares llamativos (clickbaiting), en ocasiones poco rigurosos, que pretenden
funcionar como «anzuelos», pudiendo distorsionar la realidad e incrementar la desinformación. La
presente investigación analiza, de forma exploratoria y con enfoque cuanti-cualitativo, las formas de
clickbaits presentes en los titulares alojados en la fan page de Facebook de Elpais.com en n= 167
unidades informativas. El estudio arroja que existe alguna forma de clickbait en más de la mitad de la
muestra –lo que además infringe la normativa del diario–, fundamentalmente del tipo «omisivo», ítem
para el que se ha establecido una nueva subcategorización. Del mismo modo se detectaron
significativas faltas de concordancia entre la información contenida en algunos titulares y la incluida
en el cuerpo de las noticias
The quality of digital journalism is currently at risk due to the extreme competence for attracting traffic from the social networks. Thus, it is becoming increasingly more frequent to include appealing headlines, which are sometimes not rigorous enough, as bait (clickbaiting). This fact could result in a distortion of reality and can contribute to a process of general misinformation. This research analyses, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and in an exploratory way, the appearance of the clickbaits in the Facebook fan page of Elpais.com in n=167 informative units. The study reveals the existence of some sort of clickbait in more than half of the sample -which, moreover, goes against the journal's policy-, especially that of the omissive kind, an item for which a new subcategorization has been established. In the same way, a significant lack of concordance has been detected between the information contained in some headlines and that included in the rest of the article.
The quality of digital journalism is currently at risk due to the extreme competence for attracting traffic from the social networks. Thus, it is becoming increasingly more frequent to include appealing headlines, which are sometimes not rigorous enough, as bait (clickbaiting). This fact could result in a distortion of reality and can contribute to a process of general misinformation. This research analyses, both quantitatively and qualitatively, and in an exploratory way, the appearance of the clickbaits in the Facebook fan page of Elpais.com in n=167 informative units. The study reveals the existence of some sort of clickbait in more than half of the sample -which, moreover, goes against the journal's policy-, especially that of the omissive kind, an item for which a new subcategorization has been established. In the same way, a significant lack of concordance has been detected between the information contained in some headlines and that included in the rest of the article.
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García Serrano, J., Romero Rodríguez, L.M., Hernando Gómez, A.: "Análisis del clickbaiting en los titulares de la prensa española contemporánea. Estudio de caso: diario El País en Facebook". Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico. Vol. 25, n. 1, págs. 197-212, (2019). ISSN 1988-2696














