The Routledge Handbook Of Developments In Digital Journalism Studies

Introduction: introducing the complexities of developments in digital journalism studies / Scott A. Eldridge II & Bob Franklin -- Law defining journalists: who's who in the age of digital media? / Jane Johnston & Anne Wallace -- Studying role conceptions in the digital age: A critical appraisal / Folker Hanusch & Sandra Banjac -- Who am I? perceptions of digital journalists' professional identity / Tim P. Vos & Patrick Ferrucci -- The death of the author, the rise of the robo-journalist: authorship, bylines and full disclosure in automated journalism / Tal Montal & Zvi Reich -- The entrepreneurial journalist / Tamara Witschge & Frank Harbers -- Content analysis of Twitter: big data, big studies / Cornelia Brantner & Jürgen Pfeffer -- Innovation in content analysis: freezing the flow of liquid news / Rodrigo Zamith -- An approach to assessing the robustness of local news provision / Philip M. Napoli, Matthew Weber & Kathleen McCollough -- Reconstructing the dynamics of the digital news ecosystem: a case study on news diffusion processes / Elisabeth Günther, Florian Buhl & Thorsten Quandt -- Testing the myth of enclaves: a discussion of research designs for assessing algorithmic curation / Jacob Ørmen -- Digital news users' and how to find them: theoretical and methodological innovations in news use studies / Ike Picone -- What if the future is not all digital?: trends in U.S. Newspapers' multiplatform readership / Hsiang Iris Chyi & Ori Tenenboim -- On digital distribution's failure to solve newspapers' existential crisis: symptoms, causes, consequences and remedies / Neil Thurman, Robert G. Picard, Merja Myllylahti & Arne H. Krumsvik -- Precarious e-lancers: freelance journalists' rights, contracts, labor organizing, and digital resistance / Errol Salamon -- What can nonprofit journalists actually do for democracy? / Magda Konieczna & Elia Powers -- Digital journalism and regulation: ownership and control / Victor Pickard -- Defining and mapping data journalism and computational journalism: a review of typologies and themes / Mark Coddington -- Algorithms are a reporter's best new friend: news automation and the case for augmented journalism / Carl-Gustav Linden -- Disclose, decode and demystify: an empirical guide to algorithmic transparency / Michael Koliska & Nicholas Diakopoulos -- Visual network exploration for data journalists / Tommaso Venturini, Mathieu Jacomy, Liliana Bounegru & Jonathan Gray -- Data journalism as a platform: architecture, agents, protocols / Eddy Borges-Rey -- Social media livestreaming / Claudette G. Artwick -- Ethical approaches to computational journalism / Konstantin Dörr -- Who owns the news? The "right to be forgotten" and journalists' conflicting principles / Ivor Shapiro & Brian MacLeod Rogers -- Defamation in unbounded spaces: Journalism and social media / Diana Bossio & Vittoria Sacco -- Hacks, hackers and the expansive boundaries of journalism / Nikki Usher -- Journalistic freedom and the surveillance of journalists post-Snowden / Paul Lashmar -- How and why pop up news ecologies come into being / Melissa Wall -- The movement and its mobile journalism: a phenomenology of Black Lives Matter journalist-activists / Allissa V. Richardson -- Nature as knowledge: the politics of science, open data, and environmental media platforms / Inka Salovaara -- Opting in and opting out of media / Bonnie Brennen -- Silencing the female voice: the cyber abuse of women on the internet / Pamela Hill Nettleton -- Social media and journalistic branding: explication, enactment, and impact / Avery E. Holton & Logan Molyneux -- Reconsidering the intersection between digital journalism and games: sketching a critical perspective / Igor Vobic -- Native advertising and the appropriation of journalistic clout / Raul Ferrer-Conill & Michael Karlsson -- User comments in digital journalism: current research and future directions / Thomas B. Ksiazek & Nina Springer -- Theorizing digital journalism: the limits of linearity and the rise of relationships / Jane B. Singer -- Outsourcing censorship and surveillance: the privatization of governance as an information control strategy in the case of Turkey / Aras Coskuntuncel -- Epilogue: situating journalism in the digital: a plea for studying news flows, users, and materiality / Marcel Broersma

Digital Journalism Studies: The Key Concepts provides an authoritative, research-based "first stop-must read" guide to the study of digital journalism. This cutting-edge text offers a particular focus on developments in digital media technologies and their implications for all aspects of the working practices of journalists and the academic field of journalism studies, as well as the structures, funding and products of the journalism industries. A selection of entries include the topics: Artificial intelligence; Citizen journalism; Clickbait; Drone journalism; Fake news; Hyperlocal journalism; Native advertising; News bots; Non-profit journalism; User comment threads; Viral news; WikiLeaks. Digital Journalism Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible read for students, academics and researchers interested in Digital Journalism and Digital Journalism Studies, as well as the broader fields of media, communication and cultural studies.

The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers an unprecedented collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of Digital Journalism Studies today. Across the last decade, journalism has undergone many changes, which have driven scholars to reassess its most fundamental questions, and in the face of digital change, to ask again: ‘Who is a journalist?’ and ‘What is journalism?’. This companion explores a developing scholarly agenda committed to understanding digital journalism and brings together the work of key scholars seeking to address key theoretical concerns and solve unique methodological riddles. Compiled of 58 original essays from distinguished academics across the globe, this Companion draws together the work of those making sense of this fundamental reconceptualization of journalism, and assesses its impacts on journalism’s products, its practices, resources, and its relationship with audiences. It also outlines the challenge presented by studying digital journalism and, more importantly, offers a first set of answers. This collection is the very first of its kind to attempt to distinguish this emerging field as a unique area of academic inquiry. Through identifying its core questions and presenting its fundamental debates, this Companion sets the agenda for years to come in defining this new field of study as Digital Journalism Studies, making it an essential point of reference for students and scholars of journalism.

The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies offers a unique and authoritative collection of essays that report on and address the significant issues and focal debates shaping the innovative field of digital journalism studies. In the short time this field has grown, aspects of journalism have moved from the digital niche to the digital mainstay, and digital innovations have been ‘normalized’ into everyday journalistic practice. These cycles of disruption and normalization support this book’s central claim that we are witnessing the emergence of digital journalism studies as a discrete academic field. Essays bring together the research and reflections of internationally distinguished academics, journalists, teachers, and researchers to help make sense of a reconceptualized journalism and its effects on journalism’s products, processes, resources, and the relationship between journalists and their audiences. The handbook also discusses the complexities and challenges in studying digital journalism and shines light on previously unexplored areas of inquiry such as aspects of digital resistance, protest, and minority voices. The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies is a carefully curated overview of the range of diverse but interrelated original research that is helping to define this emerging discipline. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying digital, online, computational, and multimedia journalism.

What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies’ central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the academic field. The book argues that digital journalism studies is much more than the study of journalism produced, distributed, and consumed with the aid of digital technologies. Rather, the scholarly field of digital journalism studies is built on questions that disrupt much of what previously was taken for granted concerning media, journalism, and public spheres, asking questions like: What is a news organisation? To what degree has news become separated from journalism? What roles do platform companies and emerging technologies play in the production, distribution, and consumption of news and journalism? The book reviews the research into these questions and argues that digital journalism studies constitutes a cross-disciplinary field that does not focus on journalism solely from the traditions of journalism studies, but is open to research from and conversations with related fields. This is a timely overview of an increasingly prominent field of media studies that will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and students of journalism and communication.

Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describe how changing news user patterns and journalism practices have been mutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media can learn from these changes. Based on 15 years of audience research, the authors provide an in-depth description of what people do with news and how this has diversified over time, from reading, watching, and listening to a broader spectrum of user practices including checking, scrolling, tagging, and avoiding. By emphasizing people’s own experience of journalism, this book also investigates what two prominent audience measurements – clicking and spending time – mean from a user perspective. The book outlines ways to overcome the dilemma of providing what people apparently want (attentiongrabbing news features) and delivering what people apparently need (what journalists see as important information), suggesting alternative ways to investigate and become sensitive to the practices, preferences, and pleasures of audiences and discussing what these research findings might mean for everyday journalism practice. The book is a valuable and timely resource for academics and researchers interested in the fields of journalism studies, sociology, digital media, and communication.

The future of journalism is hotly contested and highly uncertain reflecting developments in media technologies, shifting business strategies for online news, changing media organisational and regulatory structures, the fragmentation of audiences and a growing public concern about some aspects of tabloid journalism practices and reporting, as well as broader political, sociological and cultural changes. These developments have combined to impoverish the flow of existing revenues available to fund journalism, impact radically on traditional journalism professional practices, while simultaneously generating an increasingly frenzied search for sustainable and equivalent funding – and from a wide range of sources - to nurture and deliver quality journalism in the future. This book brings together journalists and distinguished academic specialists from around the globe to present the findings from their research and to discuss the future of journalism, the shifting quality of its products, its wide ranging sources of finance, as well as the economic and democratic consequences of the significant changes confronting Journalism. The Future of Journalism details the challenges facing the press in contemporary societies and provides essential reading for everyone interested in the role of journalism in shaping and sustaining literate, civil and democratic societies. This book consists of special issues from Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice.

This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and covers scholarship on news production; news content; journalism and society; journalism and culture; and journalism studies in a global context. As journalism studies has become richer and more diverse as a field of study, the second edition reflects both the growing diversity of the field, and the ways in which journalism itself has undergone rapid change in recent years. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, this new edition explores: Key elements, thinkers, and texts Historical context Current state of the field Methodological issues Merits and advantages of the approach/area of study Limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of study Directions for future research Offering broad international coverage from world-leading contributors, this volume is a comprehensive resource for theory and scholarship in journalism studies. As such, it is a must-have resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe.

What are we to make of our digital social lives and the forces that shape it? Should we feel fortunate to experience such networked connectivity? Are we privileged to have access to unimaginable amounts of information? Is it easier to work in a digital global economy? Or is our privacy and freedom under threat from digital surveillance? Our security and welfare being put at risk? Our politics undermined by hidden algorithms and misinformation? Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars from around the world, the Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication provides a comprehensive, unique, and multidisciplinary exploration of this rapidly growing and vibrant field of study. The Handbook adopts a three-part structural framework for understanding the sociocultural impact of digital media: the artifacts or physical devices and systems that people use to communicate; the communicative practices in which they engage to use those devices, express themselves, and share meaning; and the organizational and institutional arrangements, structures, or formations that develop around those practices and artifacts. Comprising a series of essay-chapters on a wide range of topics, this volume crystallizes current knowledge, provides historical context, and critically articulates the challenges and implications of the emerging dominance of the network and normalization of digitally mediated relations. Issues explored include the power of algorithms, digital currency, gaming culture, surveillance, social networking, and connective mobilization. More than a reference work, this Handbook delivers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the state of new media scholarship and its most important future directions that will shape and animate current debates.

This book offers a timely insight into how the news media have adapted to the digital transformation of public communication infrastructure. Providing a conceptual roadmap to understanding the disruptive, innovative impact of digital networked journalism in the 21st century, the author critically examines how and to what extent news media around the world have engaged in digital adaptation. Making use of data from news media content production and distribution both off- and online, as well as user and financial data from the U.S. and internationally, the book traces how the news media embraced and reacted to key developments such as the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 and the launch of Google in 1998, Facebook in 2004, and the Apple iPhone in 2009. The author also highlights innovative organizations that have sought to reimagine news media that are optimized for digital, online, and mobile media of the 21st century, demonstrating how these groups have been able to stay better engaged with the public. Disruption and Digital Journalism is recommended reading for all academics and scholars with an interest in media, digital journalism studies, and technological innovation.