1st Edition
Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism Models, Languages, and Storytelling
Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism provides detailed insight into the current state of journalism and its future challenges.
The book brings together a global team of authors to review and analyse emerging practices in the automated digital scenario through which journalism is being reshaped, such as novel languages, storytelling forms, and business models. Providing a much-needed review of the field to apprehend the knowledge and experience acquired, the collection also offers an up-to-date overview of digital journalism today, outlining those trends pointing to the future of journalism practice and media in the online sphere.
Through a multidisciplinary and international approach, chapters delve into the main technological changes that digital journalism has recently faced, closely related to digital native media, novel storytelling forms, social media, innovation, television broadcasting, new media management structures and procedures, content automation, fact-checking, web analytics, and social audiences.
Offering new insights into this fast-developing area, this volume will be an engaging and vital resource for media professionals and researchers in journalism and communication studies, as well as those interested in contemporary journalism practice and communication technology.
Introduction
Berta García-Orosa, Sara Pérez-Seijo, and Ángel Vizoso
1. Digital Journalism: From Reinvention to Constant Innovation
Xosé López-García and Berta García-Orosa
2. Digital Native Fact-Checkers Around the World: Notes on their Development, Main Features, and Verification Models
Ángel Vizoso and Carlos Toural-Bran
3. Journalism and Analytics: The Tension Between Journalistic Criteria and Data
Santiago Justel-Vázquez, Valentina Laferrara, Emiliana De Blasio, and Josep Lluís Micó-Sanz
4. The Role of Mobile Media in Journalism Education
Alba Silva-Rodríguez and Kjetil Vaage Øie
5. Young Audience Wanted! Journalism Looks to the Future
Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, and Gabriela Zago
6. Immersed in the News: How VR and 360-degree Videos Have Triggered a Shift in Journalistic Storytelling
Sara Pérez-Seijo, María José Benítez de Gracia, and António Baía Reis
7. Social Audience and Media
Ana-Isabel Rodríguez-Vázquez, José Sixto-García, and Kruzkaya Ordóñez
8. Journalism's Cruise Control: How Can Public Service Media Outlets Benefit From AI and Automation?
Marta Rodríguez-Castro and Clara González-Tosat
9. Recommender Systems in Major Media Platforms: Design, Tendencies, and Purposes
Martín Vaz-Álvarez and Juanjo Lainez-Reche
10. Minorities in Journalism: The Mexican Femicide in Digital Native Media
Santiago Gallur Santorun and Jenerlis Arias Arias
11. Integration of Digital Technology in TV Production: Trends and Practices in Aljazeera, AJA
Mohsen Alafranji
Biography
Berta García-Orosa is Full Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She has studied communication and politics for more than 20 years, collaborated in more than 50 research projects, and published over 100 articles and chapters.
Sara Pérez-Seijo is Researcher at Novos Medios, holds a PhD in Communication and Contemporary Information from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and is Visiting Scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Ángel Vizoso is Researcher at Novos Medios, holds a PhD in Communication from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and is Visiting Scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
