Disruptions: Studies in Digital Journalism
About the Book Series
The Disruptions: Studies in Digital Journalism series features ground breaking short form publications which engage with cutting edge technological and critical developments and debates in contemporary digital journalism theory and practice. Titles in the series explore emerging hot topics, present detailed case studies and offer new assessments of theoretical and conceptual innovations in relation to subjects including digital journalism ethics, robot news, data journalism, web metrics and online surveillance. Titles respond quickly to the latest developments in the field and showcase the work of best new and established critical thinkers in this vibrant and emerging area.
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The Markets for News: Enduring Structures in the Age of Business Model Disruptions
1st Edition
By Helle Sjøvaag
October 09, 2024
In the face of ongoing digitisation, The Markets for News examines how certain established economic features of the news industry have persisted and what makes them such stable frameworks for journalistic organisations. Drawing on an analysis of Scandinavian news industries, this text revises ...
Algorithmic Gatekeeping for Professional Communicators: Power, Trust, and Legitimacy
1st Edition
By Arjen van Dalen
October 08, 2024
This book provides a critical study of the power, trust, and legitimacy of algorithmic gatekeepers. The news and public information which citizens see and hear is no longer solely determined by journalists, but increasingly by algorithms. Van Dalen demonstrates the gatekeeping power of social ...
Data for Journalism: Between Transparency and Accountability
1st Edition
By Jingrong Tong
October 08, 2024
Considering the interactions between developments in open data and data journalism, Data for Journalism: Between Transparency and Accountability offers an interdisciplinary account of this complex and uncertain relationship in a context of tightening the control over data and weighing transparency ...
Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate
1st Edition
By Gregory P. Perreault
October 08, 2024
Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate explores the process by which digital journalists manage the coverage of hate speech and "hate groups," and considers how digital journalists can best avoid having their work used to lend legitimacy to hate. Leaning on more than 200 interviews with ...
News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation
1st Edition
By Chrysi Dagoula
October 08, 2024
This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted to and normalised the use of the platform in the industry. Offering a comprehensive understanding of Twitter uses for journalistic purposes, this book explores the platform’s use ...
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet: A Short History of Disruptive Technologies, 1990–2010
1st Edition
By Will Mari
October 08, 2024
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet is an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s in the recently computerized, but still largely unchanged, newspaper industry. Providing a focused narrative of how the internet disrupted news ...
Changing News Use: Unchanged News Experiences?
1st Edition
By Irene Costera Meijer, Tim Groot Kormelink
May 27, 2024
Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describehow changing news user patterns and journalism practices have beenmutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media canlearn from these changes. Based on 15 years of audience research, the authors provide an ...
Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing in Journalism
1st Edition
By Andrea Hunter
May 27, 2024
This book offers an in-depth exploration of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in journalism today, and examines their impacts on the broader media landscape. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing in Journalism looks at how these practices disrupt traditional journalism models, including shifting ...
Digital Innovations and the Production of Local Content in Community Radio: Changing Practices in the UK
1st Edition
By Josephine F. Coleman
May 27, 2024
This book offers an in-depth analysis of how local community radio practitioners have embraced the digital revolution. Digital Innovations and the Production of Local Content in Community Radio contextualizes the UK model of community radio, before focussing on specific case studies to examine how...
Disrupting Investigative Journalism: Moment of Death or Dramatic Rebirth?
1st Edition
By Amanda Gearing
May 27, 2024
This book makes the case for the enormous potential embodied in investigative journalism if reporters collaborate in the digital sphere and engage with emerging techniques and technologies. Bringing together personal narratives from investigative journalists who have successfully found, verified ...
Disrupting Sports Journalism
1st Edition
By Simon McEnnis
May 27, 2024
This book critically explores the impact that digital technology has had on the practices and norms of sports journalism. In the wake of major digital disruptions in news reporting, the author analyses how sports journalism has been particularly vulnerable to challenges and attacks on its ...
Disruption and Digital Journalism: Assessing News Media Innovation in a Time of Dramatic Change
1st Edition
By John V. Pavlik
May 27, 2024
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 ...