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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part I|64 pages
The digital journalist
chapter 4|11 pages
The Death of the Author, the Rise of the Robo-Journalist
part II|78 pages
Digital Journalism Studies
chapter 9|14 pages
Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Digital News Ecosystem
chapter 10|11 pages
Testing the Myth of Enclaves
chapter 11|12 pages
Digital News Users … and how to Find them
part III|68 pages
The political economy of digital journalism
chapter 12|15 pages
What if the Future is not All Digital?
chapter 13|14 pages
On Digital Distribution’s Failure to Solve Newspapers’ Existential Crisis
chapter 14|12 pages
Precarious E-Lancers
part IV|87 pages
Developing digital journalism practice
chapter 17|12 pages
Defining and Mapping Data Journalism and Computational Journalism
chapter 18|14 pages
Algorithms are a Reporter’s New Best Friend
part V|62 pages
Digital Journalism Studies
part VI|65 pages
Minority voices and protest
chapter 29|14 pages
The Movement and its Mobile Journalism
chapter 30|11 pages
Nature as Knowledge
part VII|76 pages
Digital limits