Digital Currents
Subtitle: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; University of Toronto Press
Published: Jan 21, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781442615861
Description: "Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional and citizen journalists blurring like never before, Digital Currents illuminates the behind-the-scenes efforts of television newscasters to embrace the public's participation in news and information gathering and protect the integrity of professional journalism. Using interviews with more than one hundred journalists from eight networks in Canada and the United Kingdom, Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices. The first book to examine the many ways that the public has entered the production of mainstream news, Digital Currents underscores the central importance of media literacy in the age of widespread news sources."--Publisher description.
Notes: Source title: Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News