The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism

by Tamara Witschge (Editor), Chris W. Anderson (Editor), David Domingo (Editor), Alfred Hermida (Editor)

Overview

The production and consumption of news in the digital era is blurring the boundaries between professionals, citizens and activists. Actors producing information are multiplying, but still media companies hold central position. Journalism research faces important challenges to capture, examine, and understand the current news environment. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism starts from the pressing need for a thorough and bold debate to redefine the assumptions of research in the changing field of journalism. The 38 chapters, written by a team of global experts, are organised into four key areas:

Section A: Changing Contexts

Section B: News Practices in the Digital Era

Section C: Conceptualizations of Journalism

Section D: Research Strategies

By addressing both institutional and non-institutional news production and providing ample attention to the question ‘who is a journalist?’ and the changing practices of news audiences in the digital era, this Handbook shapes the field and defines the roadmap for the research challenges that scholars will face in the coming decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473906532
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	7.24(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts since February 2012. Previously she worked at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University and at Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre. Her research explores the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring journalism, with a particular focus on what is called entrepreneurial journalism. She is co-author of the book ‘Changing Journalism’ (2011, Routledge).


Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). He is the author of Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age (Temple University Press) and the forthcoming Journalism: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press) (with Len Downie and Michael Schudson) and Remaking the News (with Pablo Boczkowski) (MIT Press). He is currently at work on a historical and ethnographic manuscript tentatively titled Journalistic Cultures of Truth: Data in the Digital Age (Oxford) which examines the relationship between material evidence, computational processes, and notions of “context” from 1910 until the present

Chair of Journalism at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Previously, he was visiting assistant professor at University of Iowa, visiting researcher at University of Tampere and senior lecturer at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. His research focuses on innovation processes in online communication, with a special interest in the (re)definition of journalistic practices and identities. He is coauthor of Participatory Journalism: guarding open gates at online newspapers (2011, Wiley-Blackwell) and co-editor of Making Online News (2008, 2011, Peter Lang).

Director and Associate Professor at the School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia (Canada). An award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar, journalism educator, his research focuses on the reconfiguration of journalism, social media, and emerging forms of digital storytelling. He is the author of Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters (2014, Double Day Canada) and coauthor of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers (2011, Wiley-Blackwell). A founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997, he spent 16 years working as a BBC journalist, including four years as a correspondent in the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Editors
PART I: CHANGING CONTEXTS
1. Digital Journalism and Democracy - Beate Ursula Josephi
2. Global Media Power - Owen Taylor
3. Digital News Media and Ethnic Minorities - Eugenia Siapera
4. The Business of News - Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
5. Digital Journalism Ethics - Stephen J.A. Ward
6. Social Media and the News - Alfred Hermida
7. Networked Framing and Gatekeeping - Sharon Meraz & Zizi Papacharissi
8. The Intimization of Journalism - Steen Steensen
9. Emotion and Journalism - Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
PART II: NEWS PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL ERA
10. Networked Journalism - Adrienne Russell
11. Hybrid News Practices - James F. Hamilton
12. The Ecology of Participation - Renee Barnes
13. Innovation in the Newsroom - Steve Paulussen
14. Outsourcing Newswork - Henrik Örnebring & Raul Ferrer
15. Semi-professional Amateurs - Jérémie Nicey
16. Sources as News Producers - Matt Carlson
17. Activists as News Producers - Yana Breindl
18. Citizen Witnesses - Stuart Allan
19. Hyperlocal News - Andy Williams & David Harte
PART III: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF JOURNALISM
20. Normative Models of Digital Journalism - Daniel Kreiss & J.S. Brennen
21. Mass, Audience, and the Public - Laura Ahva & Heikki Heikkilä
22. Digital Journalism as Practice - Bart Cammaerts & Nick Couldry
23. Mapping the Human-Machine Divide in Journalism - Seth C. Lewis & Oscar Westlund
24. Spaces and Places of News Consumption - Chris Peters
25. News Institutions - David M. Ryfe
26. Journalistic Fields - Tim P. Vos
27. News Networks - David Domingo & Victor Wiard
28. News Ecosystems - C.W. Anderson
29. Liquid Journalism - Anu Kantola
PART IV: RESEARCH STRATEGIES
30. Ethnography of Digital News Production - Sue Robinson & Meredith Metzler
31. Adopting a 'material sensibility' in journalism studies - Juliette De Maeyer
32. Reconstructing production practices through interviewing - Zvi Reich & Aviv Barnoy
33. Sampling Liquid Journalism - Anders Olof Larsson, Helle Sjøvaag, Michael Karlsson, Eirik Stavelin & Hallvard Moe
34. Big Data Analysis - Axel Bruns
35. Q-Method and News Audience Research - Kim Christian Schrøder
36. Practicing audience-centred journalism research - Irene Costera Meijer
37. Multi-method Approaches - Wiebke Loosen & Jan-Hinrik Schmidt

Editorial Reviews

This gloriously eclectic compendium embraces the “messiness” of the digital world while celebrating the diverse and continually evolving nature of journalism within it. The superb group of leading journalism studies scholars assembled here raise enough intriguing issues to keep our intellects happily engaged for a long time to come.

Jane Singer

Just like the news and newswork, journalism studies comes in increasingly varied forms and formats. Rather than trying to tame this tiger, the editors of this truly impressive Handbook succeed in setting scholars free - offering a glimpse of the many trees rather than focusing on the forest. The field will be so much better for it.

Mark Deuze

This ambitious reference project enlists an international cast of academics for substantive entries (with bibliographies) on the protean issues posed by digital journalism. This reviewer found it interesting that the volume begins with politics, moves through changing business models to questions of practice and ethics, and concludes with a section on research strategies (the most important section is on big data analysis). Underlying themes include the chip on the shoulder that bloggers always wear when comparing themselves with the "elite" or "mainstream" media and the overblown claims for "citizen witnesses" and the supposed gains in "transparency" that digital brings.

C. A. Riley II

Here is a really useful book that helps us make sense of digital journalism in flux – how technology is disrupting the economy of traditional journalism, changing what ‘doing journalism’ means, redefining who gets to speak and listen, and yet leaving some things unchanged, all set within a wider conceptual framework that takes account of comparative difference and past theorising.

James Curran