Digital Technology and Journalism

An International Comparative Perspective

Jingrong Tong, Shih-Hung Lo, Jingrong Tong, Shih-Hung Lo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319550251
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319550268
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Journalism
• Index: Social Sciences

This edited volume discusses the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding changes in journalism in the digital era. The chapters explore how technological innovations have transformed journalism and how an international comparative perspective can contribute to our understanding of the topic. Journalism is examined within Anglo-American and European contexts as well as in Asia and Africa, and comparative approaches and methods for journalism studies in the digital age are evaluated. In so doing, the book offers a thorough investigation of changes in journalistic norms, practices and genres in addition to providing an international and comparative perspective for understanding these changes and what they mean to journalism. Written by both leading scholars and media practitioners in the field, the articles in this collection are based on theoretical frameworks and empirical data, drawn from content analysis of newspaper and online coverage, in-depth interviews with news practitioners, observation on the websites of news organisations and analysis of journalists on Twitter. The result is a cohesive compilation that offers the reader an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of digital developments in journalism and comparative journalism studies.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Editors and Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Digital Technology and Journalism: An International Comparative Perspective
• Part I The Impact of Digital Technology on the Practices, Professionalism and Cultures Of Professional Journalism
• Chapter 2 The Invisible Hand of the Unaccountable Algorithm: How Google, Facebook and Other Tech Companies Are Changing Journalism
• Chapter 3 News Photography and the Digital (R)evolution: Continuity and Change in the Practices, Styles, Norms and Values of Photojournalism
• Chapter 4 UGC Creators and Use of Their Content by Mainstream Media
• Chapter 5 Uncertainty, Tabloidisation, and the Loss of Prestige: “New Media Innovations” and Journalism Cultures in Two Newspapers in Mainland China and Taiwan
• Part II The Interaction Between Digital Technology and Professional Journalism in Periods of Social Change
• Chapter 6 Journalism Culture and Professional Identity in Transit: Technology, Crisis and Opportunity in the Greek Media
• Chapter 7 Evaluating the Role of the Internet and Mainstream News Journalism in the Development of the Northern Ireland Peace Process
• Chapter 8 Digital Technology, Journalism and Politics in Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Conflict
• Part III The Rise of Citizen Journalism and Alternative Media
• Chapter 9 The Importance of Citizenship: Theoretical Issues in Studying Citizen Journalism in International Context
• Chapter 10 Independent Media, Social Movements, and the Traditional News Media in Taiwan
• Chapter 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
• Part IV Journalists on Twitter
• Chapter 12 Indian TV Anchors on Twitter: Technological Practice and Textual Form
• Chapter 13 Practising Journalism on Twitter? A Computational Analysis of British Journalists’ Use of Twitter Before the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK
• Part V Methodologies and Methods
• Chapter 14 Researching the Fluid and Multisited Appropriations of Digital Technologies in African Newsrooms
• Chapter 15 Explaining Outcomes in Comparative Digital Journalism Research: Challenges and Analytic Choices
• Index