2nd Edition
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
This second edition of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies offers a truly global and ground-breaking collection of essays addressing the key issues and debates shaping the field of Digital Journalism Studies today.
Journalism has arguably faced unprecedented disruption and reconceptualization since the first edition of this Companion was published. Questions over what role journalism and journalists play in society are pervasive, and changes to platforms, products, practices, and audiences are among the forces driving a new research agenda in the field. This newly reorganised second edition of The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies addresses developments in technologies, data infrastructures, algorithms, and the businesses behind these technologies, as well as the impact of such developments on the practice of digital journalism. Debates concerning the decline of public trust in journalism, and the blurred distinctions between journalism and other forms of media and communication, are also considered. Chapters outline the need for digital competence and literacy within journalism and introduce new methodological approaches, including experimental and arts-based methods, computational methods, and collaborative work.
Comprised of 53 original essays from distinguished academics across the globe, this Companion showcases the rich diversity of work that continues to define the field of Digital Journalism Studies and is an essential point of reference for students and researchers alike.
List of Contributors
Introduction: How ‘bout that internet!
David Cheruiyot, Joëlle Swart, Sandra Banjac
Section 1: Digital Journalism (Studies): Theories and Concepts Revisited
1 Where is and isn’t Digital Journalism Studies: A meta-analysis of an emerging field
Manfred Antwi Kofi Asuman, Brian Ekdale
2 Hybrid journalism, its logic, and its mess.
Sergio Splendore
3 Explaining Variation in Changing News Practices
David Ryfe
4 Degradation and ‘desertification’ of digital local news ecosystems
Kristy Hess, Alison McAdam
5 Rationalizing journalistic mistakes and failures: Digital press criticism and the defense of autonomy
Danford Zirugo, David Cheruiyot
6 Transparency in Digital Journalism
Kyle Heim
7 Dark Participation in Digital Journalism
Johanna Klapproth, Thorsten Quandt
8 Ambivalent Disruption: Journalistic fields, Critical incidents, and Egyptian Digital Journalism
Hanan Badr
Section 2 – Citizens, Audiences, and Publics
9 Digital journalism and “radical audience studies”: Toward a cultural sociology of news use
Johan Lindell
10 News for all? Inequalities between news audiences in digital journalism (studies)
Joëlle Swart
11 “Digital Snappers”: Citizens, Cameraphones and Photojournalism
Stuart Allan
12 Digital Audiences and Evolving News Repertoires
Chris Peters, Kim Christian Schrøder, Julie Vulpius, and Josephine Lehaff
13 News Literacy and Digital Journalism
Melissa Tully, Patrick R. Johnson
Section 3 – Technology, data, and information
14 The value(s) of journalistic ‘innovation’: developing a critical conceptualization and research agenda
Frank Harbers
15 News Recommender Systems
Juliane A. Lischka, Laura Laugwitz, Nadja Schaetz
16 Metrics-driven news: the impact of data analytics on journalism
Ramón Salaverría
17 Taking control over analytics in journalism
Kenza Lamot, Steve Paulussen
18 Always just around the corner? How fact-checkers view capabilities and challenges in the emerging field of automated fact-checking
Lucas Graves, Mark Stencel and Kate Wilkinson
19 From positivism to complexity. The need to rethink Data Journalism scholarship after more than a decade of research on the field.
Eddy Borges-Rey
Section 4 – Revisiting Journalism’s Platforms and Economies
20 Digital Gatekeeping: New Platforms, Producers, And Complexities
Peter Bro, Lisa Merete Kristensen
21 Platform business poses risks for news publishers
Oscar Westlund, Merja Myllylahti, Sherwin Chua
22 Grant funded journalism: How Foundations & Governments Realign Incentives for News Production
Magda Konieczna
23 Newspaper paywalls and value creation
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen
24 Mobile News
Dawn Wheatley
25 Nonprofits/Humanitarian Journalism in a Digital Age
Matthew Powers
Section 5 – Digital Practices & Practitioners
26 Peripheral Actors and Journalistic Boundaries
Aljosha Karim Schapals
27 Storytelling Structures in Data Journalism: Introducing the Water Tower structure
Bahareh Heravi
28 Peripheral actors in lifestyle journalism
Folker Hanusch & Kim Löhmann
29 Digital Sourcing
Ansgard Heinrich, Pashcalia (Lia) Spyridou
30 News practices in deep media convergence in China
Joyce Y.M. Nip and Ting Su
31 Community radio in a digital age
Tanja Bosch
32 Podcasting and Diversity: Developing an open-border policy for podcast studies
Amanda Brouwers
Section 6 – Societal and Global Challenges
33 Seasonal Journalism and Climate Change
Henrik Bødker
34 Digital journalism & affective proximity in reporting wars and revolutions
Omar Al-Ghazzi
35 Safety of journalists: The symbolic violence and double burden of marginalized journalists
Sandra Banjac
36 Navigating the Dangers of Mainstream Visibility for Marginalized Communities through an Ethic of Solidarity in Digital Journalism
Anita Varma
37 Emotions in digital journalism
Johana Kotišová
38 Digital Networks and Collaborations: Addressing Violence against Journalists and Building Resilience
Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante, Sheila B. Lalwani
39 Images as moral objects: Humanitarian photography and the limits of image circulation
Lilie Chouliaraki, Richard Stupart
40 Digital Hate: Normalization in Management of Online Hostility
Gregory Perreault
Section 7 – Political and Ideological Challenges
41 Digital Journalism and Populism
Lena Frischlich
42 Open-source Investigations and the New Assemblages of Digital Investigative Journalism
Philip Di Salvo
43 From studios and advocates to brand practitioners:
Tracing the influence of political and commercial interests on digital narrative journalism
David O. Dowling
44 Countering Political Disinformation
Kevin Mudavadi, Dani Madrid-Morales
45 Populist Rhapsody: Struggle for Trust in Czech Public Service Media in a Fragmented Media Environment
Klára Smejkal
46 Digital surveillance and the transformation of journalism practice in the digital age
Allen Munoriyarwa
47 Digital tabloidization in an age of populism
Khulekani Ndlovu
Section 8 – Methods for/in Digital Journalism Studies
48 X Journalism: a concept and an observational tool for tracing the evolution of the field
Julius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen
49 Advancements in Experimental Research Approaches
Esther Greussing
50 Researching information exposure using computational methods
Lisa Merten
51 Revisiting the Ethnography of Digital Journalism
Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Wambui Wamunyu
52 Reassembling digital journalism through arts-based methods
Sander Hölsgens
53 Methodological Challenges in Audience Research
Anna Sophie Kümpel, Luise Anter
54 Epilogue: Will the center hold? Relocating journalism in the digital
Marcel Broersma, Scott A. Eldridge II
Index
Biography
Sandra Banjac, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is also affiliated with the Journalism Studies Centre, University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the changing relationship between journalists and audiences, and critical intersectional approaches to exploring inequalities within journalism.
David Cheruiyot, PhD, is an assistant professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on digital media/press criticism, journalistic accountability, and global conflict reporting.
Joëlle Swart, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on changing everyday news use and how people develop habits, skills and knowledge around news and journalism. She is a member of the editorial board of Digital Journalism.
Scott A. Eldridge II, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research explores the changing journalistic field, interloper media, and peripheral journalistic actors. He is the author of numerous studies on digital journalism, including Online Journalism From the Periphery (2018).
