ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Introducing the complexities of developments in Digital Journalism Studies

part I|64 pages

The digital journalist

chapter 1|13 pages

Law Defining Journalists

Who’s who in the age of digital media?

chapter 2|12 pages

Studying Role Conceptions in the Digital Age

A critical appraisal

chapter 4|11 pages

The Death of the Author, the Rise of the Robo-Journalist

Authorship, bylines, and full disclosure in automated journalism

part II|78 pages

Digital Journalism Studies

chapter 6|14 pages

Content Analysis of Twitter

Big data, big studies

chapter 7|12 pages

Innovation in Content Analysis

Freezing the flow of liquid news

chapter 9|14 pages

Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Digital News Ecosystem

A case study on news diffusion processes

chapter 10|11 pages

Testing the Myth of Enclaves

A discussion of research designs for assessing algorithmic curation

chapter 11|12 pages

Digital News Users … and how to Find them

Theoretical and methodological innovations in news use studies

part III|68 pages

The political economy of digital journalism

chapter 12|15 pages

What if the Future is not All Digital?

Trends in U.S. newspapers’ multiplatform readership

chapter 14|12 pages

Precarious E-Lancers

Freelance journalists’ rights, contracts, labor organizing, and digital resistance

chapter 16|12 pages

Digital Journalism and Regulation

Ownership and control

part IV|87 pages

Developing digital journalism practice

chapter 17|12 pages

Defining and Mapping Data Journalism and Computational Journalism

A review of typologies and themes

chapter 18|14 pages

Algorithms are a Reporter’s New Best Friend

News automation and the case for augmented journalism

chapter 19|14 pages

Disclose, Decode, and Demystify

An empirical guide to algorithmic transparency

chapter 21|12 pages

Data Journalism as a Platform

Architecture, agents, protocols

chapter 22|14 pages

Social Media Livestreaming

part VI|65 pages

Minority voices and protest

chapter 29|14 pages

The Movement and its Mobile Journalism

A phenomenology of Black Lives Matter journalist-activists

chapter 30|11 pages

Nature as Knowledge

The politics of science, open data, and environmental media platforms

chapter 31|13 pages

Opting in and Opting Out of Media

chapter 32|13 pages

Silencing the Female Voice

The cyber abuse of women on the internet

part VII|76 pages

Digital limits

chapter 33|9 pages

Social Media and Journalistic Branding

Explication, enactment, and impact

chapter 34|13 pages

Reconsidering the Intersection between Digital Journalism and Games

Sketching a critical perspective

chapter 36|12 pages

User Comments in Digital Journalism

Current research and future directions

chapter 37|14 pages

Theorizing Digital Journalism

The limits of linearity and the rise of relationships

chapter 38|14 pages

Outsourcing Censorship and Surveillance

The privatization of governance as an information control strategy in the case of Turkey 1

chapter |12 pages

Epilogue: Situating Journalism in the Digital

A plea for studying news flows, users, and materiality