| Description |
x, 224 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Journalism, public service and BBC news online / Stuart Allan and Einar Thorsen -- Managing the online news revolution : the UK experience / Brian McNair -- The crisis of journalism and the Internet / Robert W. McChesney -- When magical realism confronted virtual reality : online news and journalism in Latin America / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Andrés Cañizález -- Newsgames : an introduction / Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer -- The intimate turn of mobile news / Gerard Goggin -- News to me : Twitter and the personal networking of news / Kate Crawford -- News produsage in a pro-am mediasphere : why citizen journalism matters / Axel Bruns -- 'Comment is free, facts are sacred ': journalistic ethics in a changing mediascape / Natalie Fenton and Tamara Witschge -- Journalism without journalists : on the power shift from journalists to employers and audiences / Mark Deuze and Leopoldina Fortunati -- Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China / Xin Xin -- Marrying the professional to the amateur : strategies and implications of the OhmyNews model / An Nguyen -- Conclusion / Guy Redden and Graham Meikle |
| Summary |
News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing; content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are adopted and adapted by users. However, despite having driven many of the changes themselves, established media organisations are in many cases struggling to adapt to this changed environment. This book is for everyone who wants to better understand the news media of the twenty-first century. With contributions from leading international scholars who question established understandings of news in the light of change, it charts a course through recent upheavals and ranges over a broad terrain, from the BBC to experimental videogames, from Latin American newsrooms to Northeast Asian blogs, from the crisis in US newspapers to Twitter users in Iran. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of how popular digital communications change relations of production and consumption, in addition to the effect on cultural and political participation. It also considers the shifting boundaries between the popular and the professional made possible by the redistribution of news functions |
| Notes |
Part of the QUT Authors Collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Citizen journalism.
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News Web sites.
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Online journalism.
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| Author |
Meikle, Graham, 1965-
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Redden, Guy.
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| LC no. |
2010032633 |
| ISBN |
0230233449 |
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0230233457 (paperback) |
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9780230233447 |
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9780230233454 (paperback) |
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