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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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 ...
Journalism from Print to Platform: The Impossible Shift from Analog to Digital
1st Edition
By Robert Hassan
May 08, 2024
Through a synthesis of philosophical anthropology and media theory, this book examines the human relationship with technology, progressing from analogue to digital, to give a new perspective on journalism in the digital age. Journalism from Print to Platform takes a fresh look at the relationship ...
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...
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...
User Comments and Moderation in Digital Journalism: Disruptive Engagement
1st Edition
By Thomas B. Ksiazek, Nina Springer
October 13, 2021
This book is an authoritative discussion of user comments and moderation in digital journalism, examining how user comments have disrupted the field of journalism and how a growing number of news organizations have abandoned commenting features altogether. Making a broad argument concerning user ...
Fake News: Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism
1st Edition
By Brian McNair
September 30, 2021
Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news ...