Webjornalismo no Piauí

Abstract

In Piauí, web journalism has great informational power, notably due to the increasingly gigantic growth of information and communication technologies, in addition to the near-death of printed newspapers, TV stations that almost always cover only Teresina, without being present in the day-to-day life of the cities in the interior, and also radio stations that have a more local perspective, at specific times.

After 20 years of research and journalistic work in the universe of the Internet in Piauí, we bring you this work that highlights the initial steps of web journalism in the state, notably how it began, what phenomena led to its expansion and how it made giant leaps in the first years of this century. It also talks about the unique historical and analytical classification of the moments of this area in Piauí and provides a historical overview of how there is evolution, sedimentation and even the period of challenges in the face of virtual social networks and fake news, currently inciting Journalism as a whole. We also present the faces and interfaces of the 12 development territories of Piauí (Carnaubais; Chapada das Mangabeiras; Chapada Vale do Rio Itaim; Cocais; Entre Rios; Plain Coastal; Serra da Capivara; Tabuleiros do Alto Parnaíba; Vale do Canindé; Vale do Guaribas; Vale do Sambito and Vale dos Rios Piauí e Itaueira), each of the sites cataloged and present in the study. We explain how, methodologically, we arrived at this cutout and how this profile is constructed. We start from the Map of Potentialities of the Development Territories of Piauí by SEPLAN (2020) under construction with data from the Atlas of Human Development in Brazil, by UNDP (2020), currently the documents that most help to understand the geographic, social and economic magnitude of Piauí. Finally, we emphasize all the sites in Piauí. We bring you a complete table of the more than 200 web journalism sites listed in the 224 municipalities of Piauí, where they are located, their local populations and their electronic addresses. The state has more than one site per municipality, but only a third of the cities are home to web journalism companies, with a high concentration in the richest and most populous places.