1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies offers a unique and authoritative collection of essays that report on and address the significant issues and focal debates shaping the innovative field of digital journalism studies. In the short time this field has grown, aspects of journalism have moved from the digital niche to the digital mainstay, and digital innovations have been ‘normalized’ into everyday journalistic practice. These cycles of disruption and normalization support this book’s central claim that we are witnessing the emergence of digital journalism studies as a discrete academic field.
Essays bring together the research and reflections of internationally distinguished academics, journalists, teachers, and researchers to help make sense of a reconceptualized journalism and its effects on journalism’s products, processes, resources, and the relationship between journalists and their audiences. The handbook also discusses the complexities and challenges in studying digital journalism and shines light on previously unexplored areas of inquiry such as aspects of digital resistance, protest, and minority voices.
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies is a carefully curated overview of the range of diverse but interrelated original research that is helping to define this emerging discipline. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying digital, online, computational, and multimedia journalism.
Introduction: Introducing the Complexities of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies
Scott A. Eldridge II & Bob Franklin
I The Digital Journalist: Making News
- Law defining journalists: Who’s who in the age of digital media?
- Studying role conceptions in the digital age: A critical appraisal
- Who am I? Perceptions of Digital Journalists’ Professional Identity
- The death of the author, the rise of the robo-journalist: Authorship, bylines and full disclosure in automated journalism
- The Entrepreneurial Journalist
- Content analysis of Twitter: Big data, big studies
- Innovation in Content Analysis: Freezing the flow of liquid news
- An Approach to Assessing the Robustness of Local News Provision
- Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Digital News Ecosystem: A Case Study on News Diffusion Processes
- Testing the Myth of Enclaves: A Discussion of Research Designs for Assessing Algorithmic Curation
- Digital news users… and how to find them: Theoretical and methodological innovations in news use studies
- What If the Future Is Not All Digital?: Trends in U.S. Newspapers’ Multiplatform Readership
- On digital distribution’s failure to solve newspapers’ existential crisis: Symptoms, causes, consequences and remedies
- Precarious E-lancers: Freelance Journalists' Rights, Contracts, Labor Organizing, and Digital Resistance
- What Can Nonprofit Journalists Actually Do for Democracy?
- Digital Journalism and Regulation: Ownership and Control
- Defining and Mapping Data Journalism and Computational Journalism: A Review of Typologies and Themes
- Algorithms are a reporter’s best new friend: News automation and the case for augmented journalism
- Disclose, Decode and Demystify: An Empirical Guide to Algorithmic Transparency
- Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists
- Data Journalism as a Platform: Architecture, agents, protocols
- Social media livestreaming
- Ethical approaches to computational journalism
- Who owns the news? The "right to be forgotten" and journalists’ conflicting principles
- Defamation in unbounded spaces: Journalism and social media
- Hacks, Hackers and the Expansive Boundaries of Journalism
- Journalistic freedom and the surveillance of journalists post-Snowden
- How and Why Pop Up News Ecologies Come into Being
- The Movement and its mobile journalism: A phenomenology of Black Lives Matter journalist-activists
- Nature as Knowledge: The Politics of Science, Open Data, and Environmental Media Platforms
- Opting In and Opting Out of Media
- Silencing the Female Voice: The Cyber Abuse of Women on the Internet
- Social Media and Journalistic Branding: Explication, Enactment, and Impact
- Reconsidering the Intersection Between Digital Journalism and Games: Sketching a critical perspective
- Native Advertising and the appropriation of journalistic clout
- User Comments in Digital Journalism: Current Research and Future Directions
- Theorizing Digital Journalism: The Limits of Linearity and the Rise of Relationships
- Outsourcing censorship and surveillance: The privatization of governance as an information control strategy in the case of Turkey
Jane Johnston & Anne Wallace
Folker Hanusch & Sandra Banjac
Tim P. Vos & Patrick Ferrucci
Tal Montal & Zvi Reich
Tamara Witschge & Frank Harbers
II Digital Journalism Studies: Research Design
Cornelia Brantner & Jürgen Pfeffer
Rodrigo Zamith
Philip M. Napoli, Matthew Weber & Kathleen McCollough
Elisabeth Günther, Florian Buhl & Thorsten Quandt
Jacob Ørmen
Ike Picone
III The Political Economy of Digital Journalism
Hsiang Iris Chyi & Ori Tenenboim
Neil Thurman, Robert G. Picard, Merja Myllylahti & Arne H. Krumsvik
Errol Salamon
Magda Konieczna & Elia Powers
Victor Pickard
IV Developing Digital Journalism Practice
Mark Coddington
Carl-Gustav Linden
Michael Koliska & Nicholas Diakopoulos
Tommaso Venturini, Mathieu Jacomy, Liliana Bounegru & Jonathan Gray
Eddy Borges-Rey
Claudette G. Artwick
V Digital Journalism Studies: Dialogues
Konstantin Dörr
Ivor Shapiro & Brian MacLeod Rogers
Diana Bossio & Vittoria Sacco
Nikki Usher
Paul Lashmar
VI Minority Voices and Protest: Narratives of freedom and resistance
Melissa Wall
Allissa V. Richardson
Inka Salovaara
Bonnie Brennen
Pamela Hill Nettleton
VII Digital Limits: New debates and challenges for the future
Avery E. Holton & Logan Molyneux
Igor Vobic
Raul Ferrer-Conill & Michael Karlsson
Thomas B. Ksiazek & Nina Springer
Jane B. Singer
Aras Coskuntuncel
Epilogue: Situating journalism in the digital: A plea for studying news flows, users, and materiality
Marcel Broersma
Index
Biography
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), an associate editor of Digital Journalism, and co-editor with Bob Franklin of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017).
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).
"In today's rapidly shifting digital media world, industry developments that seemed radical only a few years ago may be suddenly passé … and old thoughts and theories may be due for a rebirth. The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies tracks these rapid changes with clarity and insight."
C.W. Anderson, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK