Twitter como herramienta para los medios tradicionales de comunicación en Colombia: su incidencia en el cambio de las prácticas periodísticas y la interacción con su público

Las redes sociales digitales han transformado la forma de comunicarse en el Siglo XXI. Twitter es la red social más destacada para los periodistas colombianos pues según un estudio de la consultora de comunicación Burson-Marsteller, el 47% de los comunicadores colombianos utilizan esta red social para construir noticias (Burson-Marsteller, 2013). Por su popularidad, los medios de comunicación han puesto la mirada sobre esta red social pues ven en esta un nuevo espacio de información, razón por la cual se han transformado para convertir a Twitter en un nuevo conducto para la transmisión de sucesos coyunturales. En Colombia, los medios periodísticos de tradición intentan modificar su estructura y rutinas para adecuarse al nuevo molde comunicativo que propone la inclusión de las redes sociales digitales. Este artículo intenta desvelar cuáles son esos cambios que ha sufrido el periodismo colombiano, teniendo como base su relación con Twitter.

Evaluation of effectiveness of the project ‘Caring caregivers of persons in disability situation’. Bogotá - second semester of 2007

The present paper presents the results of a transversal descriptive study which intended to estimate the contribution of the project “Caring for those who take care of people with disabilities” in the areas of: strength of personal and group competences, self care, life project, dexterity in the care process of people with disabilities, and communitarian auto management; that was implemented in 20 urban areas with caregivers of the city of Bogota in the year 2007. The study allowed the nresearches to acknowledge the little change perception that caregivers had in terms of self care, however, the caregivers perceived change in the four areas, although this were not statistically significant in comparison with the general population. There were only significant changes in the communitarian auto management area in 30% of the population. As a result, it is proposed that more extensive, continuous, and sustainable processes are implemented and that this process arises from contention spaces which can be created with the caregivers, from which they can be motivated to participate in other ´processes of collective and individual changes. Also there’s a need to rely on facilitators (professionals and change agents) who have stronger competences on the how to be and the how to interact competences, because there’s a need to manage the psychosocial components in this group of people. Also, we must make organizational processes and the social networks stronger, this is: collective actions are required, because disability is a social fact, and so, the individual issues are just a moment in the process of inclusion of the person with disability, his family and caregiver.