Digital technology and journalism : an international comparative perspective /: an international comparative perspective. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jingrong Tong, Shih-Hung Lo.
• Editors: Tong, Jingrong; Lo, Shih-Hung
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Digital technology and journalism: an international comparative perspective.- Part 1. The impact of digital technology on the practices, professionalism and cultures of professional journalism.- 2. The Invisible Hand of the Unaccountable Algorithm: How Google, Facebook and Other Tech Companies are Changing Journalism (David R Brake).- 3. News photography and the digital (r)evolution: Continuity and change in the practices, styles, norms, and values of photojournalism (Marco Solaroli).- 4. UGC creators and use of their content by mainstream media (Glenda Cooper).- 5. Uncertainty, tabloidization, and the loss of prestige: New media innovations and journalism cultures in two newspapers in mainland China and Taiwan (Jingrong Tong and Shih-hung Lo).- Part 2. The interaction between digital technology and professional journalism in periods of social change.- 6. Journalism culture and professional identity in transit: technology, crisis and opportunity in the Greek media (Maria Touri, Ioanna Kostarella, Sophia Theodosiadou).- 7. Evaluating the role of the Internet and mainstream news journalism in the development of the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Paddy Hoey). 8. Digital technology, journalism and politics in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict (Thusiyan Nandakumar).- Part 3 The rise of citizen journalism and alternative media.- 9. The Importance of 'Citizenship': Theoretical Issues in Studying Citizen Journalism in International Context (Vincent Campbell).- 10. Independent Media, Social Movements, and the Traditional News Media in Taiwan (Yuan-hui Hu).- 11. The roles of online alternative media in facilitating civil society development in Macau: the case study of Macau Concealers and All About Macau Media (Chang Su). Part 4. Journalists on Twitter.- 12. Indian TV Anchors on Twitter: Technological Practice and Textual Form(Vibodh Parthasarathi and Ananda Mitra).- 13. Practising journalism on Twitter? A computational analysis of British journalists' use of Twitter before the 2016 EU referendum in the UK (Jingrong Tong and Landong Zuo).- Part 5. Methodologies and methods.- 14. Researching the Fluid and Multi-Sited Appropriations of Digital Technologies in African Newsrooms (Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and Admire Mare).- 15 Explaining Outcomes in Comparative Digital Journalism Research: Challenges and Analytic Choices (James Stanyer).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 070.430285; Electronic news gathering; Journalism -- Data processing; Journalism -- Technological innovations; Online journalism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319550268
• Related ISBNs: 9783319550251
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