1st Edition

Geographies of Journalism The Imaginative Power of Place in Making Digital News

By Robert E. Gutsche Jr., Kristy Hess Copyright 2019
140 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies. By introducing and applying approaches to geography, cultural resistance, and power as it relates to... Read more

Introduction: The Power of Place-making and Journalism



Chapter 1: Mapping the Geographies of Journalism



Chapter 2: The Trichotomy of Place, Space, and Territory in Digital Journalism Studies



Chapter 3: Symbolic and Imaginative Power: From Doxa to Innovation in Journalism



Chapter 4: Demarcating News Space(s) in Digital News



Chapter 5: Who is Where? Complicating Power, Proximity, and Journalistic Authority



Chapter 6: Power, Place, and the Spatial Dialectic of Digital Journalism



Conclusion: Advancing the Research Agenda

Biography



Robert E Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University, UK. His scholarship surrounds place-making in news as imposing social control. He is an author and editor of several books, including The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy (2018).





Kristy Hess is an academic of Journalism and Communications Studies at Deakin University, Australia. She is largely interested in researching the sustainability of local media in a digital era and its connection to place-making, boundary work, and power.