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 Between the State and the Market
1st Edition
By Helle Sjøvaag
June 14, 2022
Using the Nordic media model as an empirical backdrop, Journalism Between the State and the Market defines and analyzes journalism’s fundamental problem: its shifting location between the state and the market.This book examines how this distance is decreasing as journalism steps closer to both the ...
Making Nonprofit News: Market Models, Influence and Journalistic Practice
1st Edition
By Patrick Ferrucci
June 14, 2022
Making Nonprofit News examines the essence of nonprofit journalism on multiple levels of analysis, explaining how individuals, routines, organizational makeup and outside institutions all affect news production at nonprofit news organizations. The book argues that the market model itself – not ...
Opting Out of Digital Media
1st Edition
By Bonnie Brennen
June 14, 2022
Opting out of Digital Media showcases the role of human agency and cultural identity in the development and use of digital technologies. Based on academic research, news and trade reports, popular culture and 105 in-depth interviews, this book explores the contemporary "opting out" trend. It ...
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies: 1960-1990
1st Edition
By Will Mari
June 13, 2022
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s. It focuses on how word processing and a number of related affordances, including mobile-reporting tools, impacted the daily work ...
Citizen Journalism: Practices, Propaganda, Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Melissa Wall
June 13, 2022
Citizen Journalism explores citizen participation in the news as an evolving disruptive practice in digital journalism. This volume moves beyond the debates over the mainstream news media attempts to control and contain citizen journalism to focus attention in a different direction: the peripheries...
Photojournalism Disrupted: The View from Australia
1st Edition
By Helen Caple
June 13, 2022
Photojournalism Disrupted addresses the unprecedented disruptions in photojournalism over the last decade, with a particular focus on the Australian news media context. Using a mixed methods approach, the book assesses the situation facing press photographers and their employers in the supply of ...
Social Media Livestreaming: Design for Disruption?
1st Edition
By Claudette G. Artwick
June 13, 2022
Social Media Livestreaming: Design for Disruption? addresses a host of emerging issues concerning social media livestreaming, exploring this technology as a disruption and its potential to shape journalism practice and influence society. Live visual images increasingly inundate our digital screens....
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 ...
Disrupting Journalism Ethics: Radical Change on the Frontier of Digital Media
1st Edition
By Stephen J A Ward
September 30, 2021
Disrupting Journalism Ethics sets out to disrupt and change how we think about journalism and its ethics. The book contends that long-established ways of thinking, which have come down to us from the history of journalism, need radical conceptual reform, with alternate conceptions of the role of ...
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 ...
Geographies of Journalism: The Imaginative Power of Place in Making Digital News
1st Edition
By Robert E. Gutsche Jr., Kristy Hess
September 30, 2021
Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies. By ...
Hyperlocal Journalism and Digital Disruptions: The journalism change agents in Australia and New Zealand
1st Edition
By Scott Downman, Richard Murray
September 30, 2021
At a time when digital technologies are impacting on the success and sustainability of traditional models of journalism, hyperlocal journalism seeks to restore journalistic integrity, build community, incite change and engage audiences. This book argues for the increased importance of these new ...