ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shown there is no single protocol for studying the boundaries of journalism, just as there is no single kind of journalism to study across the various contexts of media systems, political contexts and technological arrangements described in these pages. It also shows how boundary contests around actors and activities have emerged as defining yet unresolved questions in our present moment of media disruption and post-industrial journalism. The professional logic of journalistic control confronts an information environment that is seemingly out of control these chapters demonstrate how certain conditions and considerations. The particular role of technology, as a key mediator in journalistic witnessing, storytelling, and commentary, also highlighted in the book, in some cases as the primary object around which and through which boundaries are negotiated, in others as the backdrop against which social actors work through questions of innovation and adaptation.
