[ecrea] New Book discussing Al Jazeera and Malaysia: "Network Newswork" - Media Globalization and Digital Journalism in Malaysia

I'd like to share news of the release of my new book */Network Newswork: 
Media Globalization and Digital Journalism in Malaysia, /*published by 
Routledge (2017).
/Network Newswork /is available in e-book and printed versions at Amazon 
<https://www.amazon.com/Media-Globalization-Digital-Journalism-Malaysia-ebook/dp/B074TST9PR/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511459518&sr=1-4>. 
It is also available at Routledge, Taylor and Francis 
<https://www.routledge.com/Media-Globalization-and-Digital-Journalism-in-Malaysia-Network-Newswork/Firdaus/p/book/9781138672697> 
and other retailers.


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*Network Newswork*
*Media Globalization & Digital Journalism in Malaysia*

by Amira Firdaus
Routledge, 2017

Pre-2010, during the early years of social media disruption of news, 
much was debated and discussed about the now iconic news visuals from 
amateur You Tube videos. By the second half of the 2010’s decade, as we 
approach a new decade in 2020, incorporation of social media content 
into news reports has become an entrenched journalistic practice – A new 
norm that news outlets and journalists accept as readily as they do 
other journalistic norms like accuracy and immediacy.The question 
remains however, how do news outlets and journalists reconcile this new 
norm of integrating unverifiable amateur (i.e. user-driven) visuals and 
anonymous sources into their professional news routines? One possible 
way to address this question is to examine practices and perceptions in 
journalism at a point in time when journalistic integration of social 
media sources and content shadowed the beginnings of a new practice, but 
had not yet matured into a wholely-accepted journalistic norm. This book 
theorizes 'network newswork' as a current  mode of newswork wherein 
user-driven social media sources are integrated into traditional 
institutional contexts of news production. Drawing upon a 
global-comparative approach to journalism studies, this book suggests an 
innovative ‘glocal’ comparative approach to analyse ‘network newswork’ 
among global, transnational, and local news organizations located within 
the same geographical locality, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The book uses an 
empirically-grounded conceptual framework for exploring and 
understanding recent transformations that user-driven networked 
resources bring to professional journalists’ daily work of producing 
news at the Kuala Lumpur offices of  global network Al Jazeera and 
Malaysian channel Bernama TV. Discussing the implications of network 
newswork on the wider global journalistic sphere, the book elucidates a 
tiered model of networked sources and expounds upon journalism’s 
deepening of the digital divide in its inadvertent muting of the voices 
of non-networked communities that are switched off from the global news 
sphere and its network society.


A fresh perspective on the analysis of globalization in the media and a 
useful guide for gaining access into media organizations and securing 
cooperation of organizational members for research, this book will be of 
interest to researchers in the field of Asian Media and Communication 
Studies, Journalism Studies, Political Communication and Sociology of 
Journalism.


*Contents*

Ch.1 The Glocality of Global Media Spheres

Ch.2 Network Newswork within Traditional Contexts of News Production

Ch.3 A Glocal Context for Exploring Journalistic Transformations

Ch.4 Ideological and Organizational Influences on Network Newswork

Ch.5 Doing Network Newswork: Professional Norms and Individual Preferences

Ch.6 Network Newswork across News Cultures

Ch.7 Network Newswork and the Wider Media Ecology

Ch.8 Making Meaningful Journalism

Ch.9 Afterword


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