ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that user-driven media spheres serve as newly emerging spaces for journalistic newsgathering. It draws upon network journalism debates to propose network news-work as a current mode of newswork wherein user-driven networked informational sources are integrated into traditional institutional contexts of news production. The book presents a non-Western research setting, in the form of the soft-authoritarian nation of Malaysia and its world city capital, Kuala Lumpur. It also presents empirical manifestations of network newswork as experienced and perceived by real-world journalists producing news for different news spheres from within the same glocal locality. The book examines different forms of network newswork, namely network newswork as expansion of professionalism, network newswork as technocratic extensions of government model journalism, and network newswork as innovative individual appropriation of technology.
