Dispositions of the Informative digital Consumption in Journalism Students

Abstract

Since some decades ago, the convergence of media through a screen, the digitalization of communicative processes and the emergence of new informational practices reconfigure the journalism exercise and formation. This article shows the results of exploratory research around how journalism students get informed on current events and how they disfavor a certain type of news content. The main goal is to inquire about the disposition and preferences of information consumption in journalism students. For that, an opinion poll was performed to students of two private universities in the Metropolitan Region of Chile as an intentional sample. The research suggests that there are some generalized digital abilities among the students with different emphasis for informing themselves, i.e. perception schemes that might generate distinctions between informational preferences and verification of the information received according to their gender and university. Furthermore, an online exercise performed afterward, showed that despite the prevalence of digital abilities, their information practices are far from a newsworthy assessmen tbased on checking methods.