News online
Subtitle: transformations and continuities
By: edited by Graham Meikle, Guy Redden
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780230233454
Description: News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing; content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are adopted and adapted by users. However, despite having driven many of the changes themselves, established media organisations are in many cases struggling to adapt to this changed environment. This book is for everyone who wants to better understand the news media of the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading international scholars who question established understandings of news in the light of change, it charts a course through recent upheavals and ranges over a broad terrain, from the BBC to experimental videogames, from Latin American newsrooms to Northeast Asian blogs, from the crisis in US newspapers to Twitter users in Iran. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of how popular digital communications change relations of production and consumption, in addition to the effect on cultural and political participation. It also considers the shifting boundaries between the popular and the professional made possible by the redistribution of news functions.
Table of contents: title: Journalism and public service : the case of BBC news online   / Stuart Allan and Einar Thorsen; title: Managing the online news revolution : the UK experience   / Brian McNair; title: The crisis of journalism and the Internet /  Robert W. McChesney; title: When magical realism confronted virtual reality : online news and journalism in Latin America /  Jairo Lugo and Andrés Cañizález; title: Newsgames : an introduction /  Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, Bobby Schweizer; title: The intimate turn of mobile news /  Gerard Goggin; title: News to me : Twitter and the personal networking of news  / Kate Crawford; title: News produsage in a pro-am mediasphere : why citizen journalism matters   / Axel Bruns; title: 'Comment is free, facts are sacred ': journalistic ethics in a changing mediascape / Natalie Fenton and Tamara Witschge; title: Journalism without journalists : on the powershift from journalists to employers and audiences /  Mark Deuze and Leopoldina Fortunati; title: Web 2.0, grassroots journalism and social justice in China  / Xin Xin; title: Marrying the professional to the amateur : strategies and implications of the OhmyNews model /  An Nguyen; title: Conclusion / Guy Redden and Graham Meikle.