News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues
of public importance. It is where we come together to inform,
persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a
collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news
is changing - content, distribution channels, geographical
constraints, production values, business models, regulatory
approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media
technologies are adopted and adapted by users. However, despite
having driven many of the changes themselves, established media
organisations are in many cases struggling to adapt to this changed
environment. News Online: Transformations and Continuities is for
everyone who wants to better understand the news media of the
twenty-first century. With contributions from leading international
scholars who question established understandings of news in the
light of change, this book charts a course through recent upheavals
and ranges over a broad terrain - from the BBC to experimental
videogames, from Latin American newsrooms to Northeast Asian blogs,
from the crisis in US newspapers to Twitter users in Iran. Each
chapter provides an insightful analysis of how popular digital
communications change relations of production and consumption, in
addition to the effect on cultural and political participation.
News Online considers the shifting boundaries between the popular
and the professional made possible by the redistribution of news
functions. Graham Meikle is Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Film, Media & Journalism at the University of Stirling, UK. He
is the author of Interpreting News (2009) and Future Active: Media
Activism and the Internet (2002). Guy Redden is a lecturer in
cultural studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has
previously taught at the University of Lincoln (UK) and Prince of
Songkla University (Thailand). His research revolves around the
relationships between culture, media and economy. Contributors
Stuart Allan, Ian Bogost, Axel Bruns, Andres Canizalez, Kate
Crawford, Mark Deuze, Natalie Fenton, Simon Ferrari, Leopoldina
Fortunati, Gerard Goggin, Jairo Lugo, Robert McChesney, Brian
McNair, An Nguyen, Bobby Schweizer, Einar Thorsen, Tamara Witschge
and Xin Xin.
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