ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the ways in which key themes and ideas, which have been central to journalism studies, require theoretical reconsideration in the context of digital media and change. It addresses the hitherto unseen challenges of analyzing digital and changeable content, observing journalistic production, managing copious amounts of data, and assessing user and audience activity. The book considers the new business models and emerging financial strategies established to resource and sustain a viable and democratic as well as digital journalism. It focuses on the radical reshaping and recasting of relationships between journalists and their audiences along with the fundamental scholarly reappraisal and rethinking of that relationship in Digital Journalism Studies. The book also considers the broad social, political, and journalistic implications of social media for traditional theorizing of the key concept of the public sphere.
