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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Journalism Education for the Digital Age: Promises, Perils, and Possibilities
1st Edition
By Brian Creech
May 27, 2024
This book examines pressing debates concerning how and why journalism education should respond to digital changes in and around the industry, and questions market oriented ideology and civic responsibility in the field. Surveying a broad field of discourse and research into journalism education, ...
Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South
1st Edition
By Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Admire Mare
May 27, 2024
This book offers an African perspective on how news organisations are embracing digital participatory practices as part of their everyday news production, dissemination and audience engagement strategies. Drawing on empirical evidence from news organisations in sub-Saharan Africa, Participatory ...
Reappraising Local and Community News in the UK: Media, Practice, and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By David Harte, Rachel Matthews
May 27, 2024
Drawing on expert contributions from around the UK, this collection brings together a series of insights into the contemporary local and community news media landscape in the UK. Offering an analysis of the ongoing ‘crisis’ in the provision of local news, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...
Transparency and Journalism: A Critical Appraisal of a Disruptive Norm
1st Edition
By Michael Karlsson
May 27, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible introduction to journalistic transparency. Pulling from historical and theoretical perspectives, Transparency and Journalism explains the concept of transparency and its place in journalistic practice, offering a critical ...
Smartphones and the News
1st Edition
By Andrew Duffy
September 25, 2023
This book reviews recent studies into smartphones and the news, and argues that the greatest impact on news of the smartphone as a dominant technological artefact is to shift it away from an authoritative, fixed ‘first draft of history’ to become a fluid, flexible stream of...
Hacking Gender and Technology in Journalism
1st Edition
By Sara De Vuyst
May 31, 2023
Hacking Gender and Technology in Journalism addresses the question of whether journalism’s new digital spaces suffer from the same gendered structures as traditional media organisations, or whether they go beyond such bias. This book offers insights into the challenges that women journalists face ...
New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists
1st Edition
By Nicole S. Cohen, Greig de Peuter
May 31, 2023
Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States.Through in-depth ...
What is Digital Journalism Studies?
1st Edition
By Steen Steensen, Oscar Westlund
December 19, 2022
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...
Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time
1st Edition
By Edson Tandoc Jr.
June 14, 2022
Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time critically examines how journalists use web analytics in their work and the implications of that use. Now that web analytics has become deeply embedded in newsrooms, its impact on journalism is even more potent. Documenting the ...
Conceptualising Immersive Journalism
1st Edition
By Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws
June 14, 2022
This book presents the history of virtual reality and its introduction into journalism, exploring the challenges posed by pushing to make the experience of news a full body event. The problem of interpretation versus objectivity is discussed, as well as the associated ethical responsibilities. ...
Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News
1st Edition
By Alfred Hermida, Mary Lynn Young
June 14, 2022
Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News traces the emergence of data journalism through a scholarly lens. It reveals the growth of data journalism as a subspecialty, cultivated and sustained by an increasing number of professional identities, tools and technologies, educational opportunities ...
Facebook, the Media and Democracy: Big Tech, Small State?
1st Edition
By Leighton Andrews
June 14, 2022
Facebook, the Media and Democracy examines Facebook Inc. and the impact that it has had and continues to have on media and democracy around the world.Drawing on interviews with Facebook users of different kinds and dialogue with politicians, regulators, civil society and media commentators, as well...