The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers an unprecedented collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of Digital Journalism Studies today.
Across the last decade, journalism has undergone many changes, which have driven scholars to reassess its most fundamental questions, and in the face of digital change, to ask again: ‘Who is a journalist?’ and ‘What is journalism?’. This companion explores a developing scholarly agenda committed to understanding digital journalism and brings together the work of key scholars seeking to address key theoretical concerns and solve unique methodological riddles.
Comprising 58 original essays from distinguished academics across the globe, this Companion draws together the work of those making sense of this fundamental reconceptualization of journalism, and assesses its impacts on journalism’s products, its practices, resources, and its relationship with audiences. It also outlines the challenge presented by studying digital journalism and, more importantly, offers a first set of answers.
This collection is the very first of its kind to attempt to distinguish this emerging field as a unique area of academic inquiry. Through identifying its core questions and presenting its fundamental debates, this Companion sets the agenda for years to come in defining this new field of study as Digital Journalism Studies, making it an essential point of reference for students and scholars of journalism.
Introduction; 1: Conceptualizing digital journalism studies; 1: What’s Digital? What’s Journalism?; 2: Deconstructing Digital Journalism Studies; 3: Digital Journalism Ethics; 4: The Digital Journalist; 5: The Time(s) Of News Websites; 6: Digital Footage from Conflict Zones; 7: Gatekeeping and Agenda-Setting; 2: Investigating digital journalism; 8: Rethinking Research Methods for Digital Journalism Studies; 9: Automating Massive-Scale Analysis Of News Content; 10: The Ethnography of Digital Journalism; 11: Investigating ‘Churnalism’ In Real-Time News; 12: Digital Journalism and Big Data; 13: Exploring Digital Journalism With Web Surveys; 3: Financial strategies for digital journalism; 14: Funding Digital Journalism; 15: Resourcing A Viable Digital Journalism; 16: Newspaper Paywalls And Corporate Revenues; 17: Computational Journalism and The Emergence Of News Platforms; 18: Crowdsourcing in Open Journalism; 19: Community and Hyperlocal Journalism; 4: Digital journalism studies: Issues and debates; 20: Mobile News; 21: Digital Journalism And Tabloid Journalism; 22: Automated Journalism; 23: Citizen Journalism; 24: User Comments And Civility On Youtube; 25: Digital Transparency And Accountability; 5: Developing digital journalism practice; 26: Data, Algorithms, and Code; 27: Self-Referential Practices in Journalism; 28: Live Blogs, Sources, and Objectivity; 29: Follow The Click?; 30: Journalists’ Uses of Hypertext; 31: Computer-Mediated Creativity and Investigative Journalism; 6: Digital journalism and audiences; 32: Making Audience Engagement Visible; 33: Constructing News with Audiences; 34: Revisiting the Audience Turn in Journalism; 35: Between Proximity and Distance; 36: Audiences and Information Repertoires; 37: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Digital News Audiences; 7: Digital journalism and social media; 38: Transformations of Journalism Culture; 39: Social Media and Journalism; 40: Twitter, Breaking The NEWS, and Hybridity in Journalism; 41: Journalists’ Uses of Twitter; 42: Facebook and NEWS Journalism; 43: The Solo Videojournalist as Social Storyteller; 8: Digital journalism content; 44: Converged Media Content; 45: Newspapers and Reporting; 46: The New Kids On the Block; 47: Longform Narrative Journalism; 48: Photojournalism and Citizen Witnessing; 49: Developments in Infographics; 9: Global digital journalism; 50: Social Media Transforming News; 51: Social Media and Radio Journalism in South Africa; 52: A Conundrum of Contras; 53: Data Trumps Intuition Every Time 1; 54: Social Media Use, Journalism, and Violence In The Northern Mexico Border; 55: Newsroom Convergence; 10: Future directions; 56: Whistleblowing in A Digital Age; 57: Surveillance In A Digital Age; 58: Epilogue: Digital Journalism
Bob Franklin held the foundation Chair in Journalism Studies at Cardiff University from 2005-2018, is founding editor of the journals Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies and edits the new book series Disruptions: Studies in Digital Journalism. Recent publications include The Future of Journalism: In an Age of Digital Media and Economic Uncertainty (2016). Scott A. Eldridge II is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field (2018) and an associate editor of Digital Journalism.
Reviews for The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
This outstanding volume includes insights from every leading scholar doing thought provoking research on digital journalism. Everything you need to know about the state of contemporary journalism: the why, the how, and with what effect - it's all here, in this engaging and forward thinking Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head, Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago. Bob Franklin and Scott Eldridge have created a foundational text for the development of digital journalism studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field of study. The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies is a masterful collection, addressing key ideas, issues and concerns shaping the field and exploring conceptual, professional, methodological and ethical considerations related to digital journalism studies. Framed globally, this must-read text includes 58 original articles, which focus on the implications of economic, cultural, social, political and technological conditions facing digital journalism studies while addressing key changes in the way people now engage with news and information. Bonnie Brennen, Nieman Professor of Journalism, Marquette University, USA. The world of news and journalism is changing fast as the internet has become a common means of news gathering and distribution. The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers a comprehensive collection of essays analysing 'digital journalism' and 'Digital Journalism Studies' and makes an irreplaceable and timely contribution to the field. Very familiar concepts like news and journalism are now up for complete overhaul, and this essential compilation of original work provides a major input to this task. Peter Golding, Emeritus Professor, Northumbria University, UK.
