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| Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production |
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The objective of Making Online News is to bring the rich tradition of news production sociology to investigate the production of online journalism. This is the first edited collection of ethnographies of online newsrooms. The book began as a project of (and incorporates work presented to) the IAMCR Working Group on Media Production Analysis. Until now, publications on the developing arena of online media have consisted mostly of theoretical discussions, descriptive overviews and empirical research focused on content, producer's attitudes, and audience behaviours. Little has been published about the daily work of online journalists, how it differs from traditional media production, and what consequences it has for the character and quality of online news. We aim to fill this void. Research has tended to stay outside the doors of online newsrooms, and there is a lot to learn from entering. The chapters in the volume go beyond the usual discussion in online news debates on what the new medium could be; they show how the Internet has actually been incorporated to newsrooms and what decisions online editors and journalists have made. They explain that many factors constrain the development of online news; factors that we need to be aware of to take online journalism to the next step. Check the book website for a blog, chapter list and contributors bios About the Editors Chris Paterson is a Senior Lecturer with the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Leeds (UK). He is co-founder of the Working Group on Media Production Analysis of the IAMCR. David Domingo is Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa (USA) and Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). Book information Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production Go to the publisher's site for this book. The above text is from the publisher's description of the book. |
Edited by Chris Paterson and David Domingo
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