The new territorialities of information and the non-place of news

Abstract

This article seeks to relate the new field of enjoyment of news content, here defined as “new territorialities of information”, with the growing advance of social. To this end, it presents the concepts of territoriality and non-place interacts with the results of the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report consumer survey, released in June 2019 and June 2020. Based on the hypothesis that these envi-ronments become effective as a fluid and dispersed space for the dissemination of news and non-news content, the article seeks to contribute to a reflection about the impacts of the new spaces for the enjoyment of information, given their pecu-liar characteristics, they tend to stimulate the dissemination not only of factual reports but also of misleading or unprofessional materialized content.