ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the formation and state of digital journalism studies as a field of research. It provides an overview of the emergence of this field of research and discusses its interdisciplinarity as well as assesses its standing and possible blind spots. The chapter explains how digital journalism studies has evolved from being dominated by a discourse of revolution, via evolution, to a discourse of deconstruction, which currently dominates the field. It discusses a meta-analysis on articles published in the recently (2013) launched journal Digital Journalism which will be compared with a similar meta-analysis of articles in the journals Journalism Studies and Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism. The chapter shows that digital journalism studies is marked by four strong research traditions borrowing from sociology, political science, cultural studies, and science and technology studies. It identifies the paths as the ways in which different disciplinary perspectives have paved the way for researchers to study digital journalism.
