Víctor García-Perdomo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• University of La Sabana

This study focuses on second screening for news, a hybrid media process that combines watching news on television and a second, web-connected screen (i.e., smart-phone, lap-top). Based on U.S.-national, 2-wave panel data, the paper (a) examines people's motivations to engage in second screen use, and then (b) advances the relationship between secon...

Audiences play a fundamental role in disseminating and evaluating news content, and one of the big questions facing news organizations is what elements make content viral in the digital environment. This comparative study of the United States, Brazil and Argentina explores what values and topics present in news shared online predict audience intera...

Teams of online professionals working for TV news organizations are reacting to a new, powerful wave of technological innovations brought by online video platform and live streaming features. This research uses social construction of technology as a theoretical framework to understand these changes and explain how online professionals working for C...

Objective: Despite the interest in technology-enhanced preventive interventions for suicidality, there is minimal peer-reviewed research on conversations of text message hotlines. In this large-scale study, the authors explored distinct classes of users of the Crisis Text Line who reported suicidality. Classes were based on texters' presenting psy...

This paper examines how two groups on Twitter - the 100 most-followed Colombian journalists and members of the public - framed the 2014 Colombian presidential election. Using a social media analysis platform that applies supervised, machine-learning algorithms, this study collected and analyzed all tweets posted by these groups during the electoral...

The move from political fact-checking to a “public health” or debunking model of fact-checking, sustained by policies and funding from platforms, highlights important tensions in the case of Covid-19. Building on findings from studies focused on journalistic role performance, we investigated how professional fact-checkers in Latin America and sub-S...

A partir de los datos obtenidos mediante una encuesta nacional de carácter urbano (N=1159), este estudio contribuye a esclarecer la relación entre la exposición selectiva, la confianza en los medios y la tolerancia a compartir desinformación en el contexto de las elecciones presidenciales en Colombia durante 2022. Los hallazgos sugieren que existe...

Immersive journalism is a recent field of research focusing on digital technologies such as augmented reality (AR), 360° video, and virtual reality (VR). This research analyzed 69 academic articles published in the Web of Science from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2021, using a systematic review of scientific literature (SLR). The prevalence of...

This research utilizes the theoretical framework of the protest paradigm to analyze how major TV channels and newspapers in Chile and Colombia covered—on their official X (Twitter) accounts—the massive 2019 protests. The paper collected data using the software Crimson Hexagon (CH), a social media analysis software that accesses all public messages...

This bilingual, cross-national study analyzes stories about the Colombian peace process that were engaged with on social media to understand the use of peace and war framing in news reporting. Using content analysis as a method, this paper operationalized Galtung’s classification of peace journalism and follows framing methodological adjustments an...

This study compares U.S. digital news coverage of recent foreign and domestic protests. Differences in coverage's framing, sourcing, and device emphases were analyzed for two cases: protests that erupted after the death of Michael Brown and protests demanding justice for the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Building on protest paradigm...

This study analyzes the characteristics and frames (visual and textual) of memes shared on Twitter that became forms of political communication in the 2018 Colombian presidential campaign. Using multimodal content analysis and taking into consideration variables such as virality, humor, media frames and users´ intention, 358 memes were analyzed to...

This research takes a socio-technical approach and uses participant observation and in-depth interviews to explain how two major TV news organizations from Colombia utilize social media to distribute video and engage TV audiences in online settings. Findings show that social media, particularly Facebook, are changing how television channels think o...

This study takes a socio-technical approach, and uses ethnography, participant observation, and in-depth interviews to analyze the online operations of two major Colombian TV news organizations—Caracol TV and Citytv—and the interaction between traditional media and online news teams during a moment in which television is experiencing renewed techno...

Previous research suggests that mainstream media coverage around the world follows a “protest paradigm” that demonizes protesters and marginalizes their causes. Given the recent increase in global protest activity and the growing importance of social media for activism, this paper content analyzes 1,438 protest-related English and Spanish news stor...

Previous research suggests that mainstream media coverage around the world follows a “protest paradigm” that demonizes protesters and marginalizes their causes. Given the recent increase in global protest activity and the growing importance of social media for activism, this paper content analyzes 1,438 protest-related English and Spanish news stor...

This study analyzes how entrepreneurial native online newsrooms in Colombia are implementing digital technologies and innovation in their workspaces. The article uses technology studies and entrepreneurial journalism as frameworks to investigate eight relevant case studies. The method used in-depth interviews with the directors of these online medi...

Immigration became a hot issue during the 2016 presidential election, in part due to Donald Trump’s offensive campaign against immigrants and minorities in general. Drawing upon the belief gap hypothesis, we tested if support for Donald Trump increased false beliefs about immigrants. The belief gap hypothesis explains differences in beliefs about e...

This study compares U.S. digital news coverage of recent foreign and domestic protests. Differences in coverage’s framing, sourcing, and device emphases were analyzed for two cases: protests that erupted after the death of Michael Brown and protests demanding justice for the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Building on protest paradigm...

In 2014 protests erupted around the world after 43 college students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were kidnapped and massacred. This bilingual, cross-national content analysis explores the relationship between multimedia features in stories about the Ayotzinapa protests and how social media users liked, shared, and commented on that coverage. This study...

The well-known phrase 'if it bleeds, it leads' describes the sensational approach that has penetrated the history of news. Sensationalism is a term without complete consensus among scholars, and its meaning and implications have not been considered in a digital environment. This study analyzes 400 articles from online-native news organizations acro...

The journalist socio demographic and labour characteristics in Colombia art described as well as the satisfaction rate in relation to their job is shown in the present article. This is an important issue that affects the way journalists work and also has an important effect on the final informative products that reach the audience. The results were...

El presente artículo establece las características socio-demográficas y laborales de los periodistas colombianos y también analiza el índice de satisfacción que muestran con respecto al trabajo que ejercen, una cuestión que condiciona la forma en la que desarrollan su labor y que influye notablemente en los productos informativos que llegan finalme...