ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the mounting evidence that points to significant changes in news consumption through mobile technologies. It focuses on the smartphone—can be used in the folds of everyday life for various communicative and informative purposes. The chapter also focuses on mobile news use on increasingly versatile smartphones. It also includes feature phones and phablets, which similarly have their offshoots in telecommunications and the telephone, as they enable calls through telecommunication networks. The chapter explores how distinct social actors inside news organizations—journalists, technologists, and businesspeople—can collaboratively shape the future of mobile news. Turning to the more significant question of the future of digital journalism, the chapter also explores how distinct social actors inside news organizations—journalists, technologists, and businesspeople—can collaboratively shape the future of mobile news. The future shaping of news publishing needs to involve the expertise of journalists, and technologists—as well as audiences and technologies—in developing and reconfiguring the production and distribution of news for diverse proprietary media and platforms.
