Digital journalism and empowerment. informational trends in Google news during 2017

This paper's main objective is to examine digital journalism in Iwo steps. Firstly, a literature review was conducted on present-day digital journalism. In addition, its relationship with citizen empowerment was analysed. Secondly, an exploratory study was performed on Google news (in Spanish) to ascertain the topic trends around empowerment and ICTs during 2017. The survey sample comprised 332 news items, divided mainly between Spain and Latin America. The results reveal a predominance of news items where the author's name is not indicated over those which do. Furthermore, there exists a slight prevalence of news items which do not show links over those which do. The main trends shown by the sample were Development, Internet, Politics and governance, Security, Job positions, Gender and Education.