Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production
Edited by Chris Paterson and David Domingo
This book investigates the production of online news by analyzing the daily
work of online journalists, how it differs from traditional media
production, and the consequences it has for the character and quality of
online news. It advocates revitalizing the ethnographic methodologies of
sociologists who entered newsrooms in the 1970s and 1980s, while at the same
time exploring new theoretical frameworks to better understand the evolution
of online journalism and how newsrooms deal with innovation and change. The
volume fills a gap in the field by offering ethnographic description from
sites of online news production in many countries, and it provides insider
perspectives on the real practices and values of new media production,
documenting how these often differ from the claims of both producers and
theorists.
?Offering a fascinating wealth of rich observation and careful analysis of
the rapid changes in news production and distribution, Making Online News is
to be welcomed as an addition to media sociology, journalism studies, and
political communication. It is methodologically innovative in its emphasis
on newsroom ethnography, critically insightful in challenging popular
assumptions about the impact of new technologies and?most welcome
internationally inclusive in its scope.?
Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and
Communications, London School of Economics, and President, International
Communication Association
?Making Online News is a welcome, timely, and useful addition to the
research on newsmaking and the production of media content in this new
digital environment of the twenty-first century. It features chapters from a
wide range of countries and scholars, including some well-known
veterans...and it clearly illustrates the benefits of observational research
in studying journalists in their natural habitat of the newsroom. [This]
concise and readable volume...nicely fills a distinct gap in our knowledge
of the daily work routines and values of online journalists.?
David H. Weaver, Roy W. Howard Research Professor, School of Journalism,
Indiana University
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Editors-
Chris Paterson is a Senior Lecturer with the Institute for Communication
Studies at the University of Leeds (UK). David Domingo is an Assistant
Professor in the Communication Department at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in
Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain).
Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Group
ISBN 978-1-4331-0213-4
