ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers an unprecedented collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of Digital Journalism Studies today.
Across the last decade, journalism has undergone many changes, which have driven scholars to reassess its most fundamental questions, and in the face of digital change, to ask again: ‘Who is a journalist?’ and ‘What is journalism?’. This companion explores a developing scholarly agenda committed to understanding digital journalism and brings together the work of key scholars seeking to address key theoretical concerns and solve unique methodological riddles.
Compiled of 58 original essays from distinguished academics across the globe, this Companion draws together the work of those making sense of this fundamental reconceptualization of journalism, and assesses its impacts on journalism’s products, its practices, resources, and its relationship with audiences. It also outlines the challenge presented by studying digital journalism and, more importantly, offers a first set of answers.
This collection is the very first of its kind to attempt to distinguish this emerging field as a unique area of academic inquiry. Through identifying its core questions and presenting its fundamental debates, this Companion sets the agenda for years to come in defining this new field of study as Digital Journalism Studies, making it an essential point of reference for students and scholars of journalism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|72 pages
Conceptualizing digital journalism studies
part 2|60 pages
Investigating digital journalism
part 3|60 pages
Financial strategies for digital journalism
chapter 14|9 pages
Funding Digital Journalism
part 4|58 pages
Digital journalism studies: Issues and debates
part 5|60 pages
Developing digital journalism practice
chapter 26|9 pages
Data, Algorithms, and Code
chapter 28|10 pages
Live Blogs, Sources, and Objectivity
part 6|62 pages
Digital journalism and audiences
chapter 32|10 pages
Making Audience Engagement Visible
chapter 33|10 pages
Constructing News with Audiences
chapter 34|9 pages
Revisiting the Audience Turn in Journalism
part 7|62 pages
Digital journalism and social media
chapter 39|11 pages
Social Media and Journalism
chapter 43|11 pages
The Solo Videojournalist as Social Storyteller
part 8|62 pages
Digital journalism content
chapter 44|11 pages
Converged Media Content
chapter 46|9 pages
The New Kids On the Block
part 9|58 pages
Global digital journalism
chapter 50|9 pages
Social Media Transforming News
chapter 53|9 pages
Data Trumps Intuition Every Time 1
chapter 55|11 pages
Newsroom Convergence
part 10|22 pages
Future directions