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The Electronic Grapevine - Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting in the New On-line Environment (Hardcover)
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The Electronic Grapevine - Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting in the New On-line Environment (Hardcover)
Series: LEA Telecommunications Series
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The widespread use of the Internet as a tool for gathering and
disseminating information raises serious questions for
journalists--and their readers--about the process of reporting
information. Using virtual sources and publishing online is
changing the way in which journalism takes place and its effect on
the society it serves.
USE LAST THREE PARAGRAPHS ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... "The
Electronic Grapevine" explores the use of online media by reporters
in the United States, and examines the impact that usage may have
on how journalism is framed in the cultural sphere, as well as how
it is conducted in the professional one. It contains a mix of
material examining how it feels to "do" online journalism, how it
affects those who consume it, different ways that media scholars go
about trying to understand it better, and the likely social and
cultural impact of Internet-like technologies on the public, at
whom all this electronic information is eventually aimed.
Drawing from the emerging scholarly work in the field and from the
real-life experiences of working journalists, Borden and Harvey
collect contributions that examine why journalists use the
Internet, what changes it makes in how they approach their jobs,
and what differences they see in conducting their daily
newsgathering with this medium rather than other methods. The
volume also analyses when and why journalists do not use online
media and what the impact of the decision to use or not use the
Internet may mean for the outer world, whose perceptions of itself
are so often shaped by journalistic portrait.
This series of thought-provoking, original essays explores the
impact of computer-based information and communication services on
traditional journalistic routines and practices, and thereby
addresses a critical gap in the scholarly literature on
communication, law, and culture. Distinguishing between linkage
devices like the Internet, and database resources such as
LEXIS/NEXIS, America Online, and others, this book examines the
ways in which both types of online services may reshape and
redefine not only the products of journalistic effort, but the
newsgathering process itself.
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