La visión de Google News desde la academia: scoping review

Carlos Lopezosa; Mari Vállez; Javier Guallar

doi:10.31921/doxacom.n38a1891

Authors

Carlos Lopezosa University of Barcelona, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8619-2194
Mari Vállez University of Barcelona, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3284-2590
Javier Guallar University of Barcelona, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8601-3990

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n38a1891

Keywords:

Google News, scoping review, digital news media, search engine optimization, digital journalism, SEO, journalism

Abstract

Google News is an online news service that collects daily headlines from various news sources and presents them on its homepage in a newspaper-like format. This free service redistributes information from accredited and selected media, making it a valuable source of readership for these media outlets. Google News has been the subject of academic research in several articles examining its effects and relevance. With this premise in mind, the aim of this research was to conduct an exploratory systematic review, also known as a "scoping review," to examine the body of academic articles published on Google News. The specific objectives were to identify key ideas and major concepts related to Google News, including commonly used methodologies, and to provide evidence-based insights into the present and future effects of Google News. The results of this research offer an overview of scientific studies on Google News and their most significant findings.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Lopezosa, University of Barcelona, Spain

PhD. in Journalism from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and visiting researcher at the University of Barcelona (Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellowship). His doctoral thesis focused on studying positioning factors of content-intensive sites, particularly online media, and evaluating SEO analysis tools. He specializes in search engine positioning and monetization systems based on quality content strategies. He has been an associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, teaching in the Faculty of Communication for the Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, and Advertising and Public Relations programs.
Mari Vállez, University of Barcelona, Spain

PhD in Social Communication from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and member of the Centre de Recerca en Informació, Comunicació i Cultura (CRICC), of Universitat de Barcelona. Lecturer at the Department of Librarianship, Information Science and Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat de Barcelona. She is also the coordinator of the double degree program in Information Management and Digital Documentation + Audiovisual Communication.
Javier Guallar, University of Barcelona, Spain

PhD in Library and Information Science from the Universitat de Barcelona and PhD in Communication from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is a lecturer and academic secretary at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, Universitat de Barcelona. As a member of the Centre de Recerca en Informació, Comunicació i Cultura (CRICC), he has participated in several funded projects. He serves as the deputy director of the journal Profesional de la Información and is the director of the book collections Profesional de la información and EPI Scholar at Editorial UOC. With extensive professional experience as a press documentalist in the media, his main research areas include content curation, journalistic documentation, audiovisual documentation, social media, digital journalism, and scientific publishing.

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