[Commlist] New Book: Histories of Digital Journalism

Together with co-editor Igor Vobič, Tamas Tofalvy is happy to announce 
the publication of the edited volume "Histories of Digital Journalism: 
The Interplay of Technology, Society and Culture" (Routledge, 2025)

https://www.routledge.com/Histories-of-Digital-Journalism-The-Interplay-of-Technology-Society-and-Culture/Tofalvy-Vobic/p/book/9781032795072 



About the book:

Building on the momentum of the recent “historical turn” in digital 
media and Internet studies, this volume explores how digital journalism 
has developed from a historical perspective. With contributions from 
established and emerging scholars from Europe, Asia, South and North 
America, the book investigates not only how established journalistic 
systems transformed in the early days of digital but how the structural, 
technological, and cultural changes induced by digitization have 
reconfigured the trajectory of journalism.

The book argues in support of three main claims. The first is that 
emphasis should be given to the plurality of histories instead of one 
single digital journalism history, thereby acknowledging the 
complexities, interactions of social relations, cultural traditions, 
power configurations, and technological changes that have shaped 
journalism and digitization. The second is the decentralization and 
decolonization of digital journalism histories. The third refers to the 
need to highlight and demonstrate the idea that the evolution of digital 
journalism should be viewed as the co-construction of the social and 
technological realms.

With theoretical and methodological reflections on historicizing digital 
journalism along with original case studies or comparative inquiries 
into the phenomena over the decades-long digital revolution of 
journalism, this volume will shape the nascent field of digital 
journalism history and start a global critical exchange of various 
approaches to and aspects of historicizing digital journalism. As such, 
it will interest scholars and students of digital journalism, journalism 
history, digital media, Internet studies, and technology studies.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Why historicize digital Journalism? Disentangling the 
relationship between journalism, technology, and history
Tamas Tofalvy & Igor Vobič

PART 1: Theories and methods of digital journalism histories

Chapter 2: Conceptualizing change in digital journalism: Three key 
theories in comparison
Thomas Schmidt

Chapter 3: "I tape therefore I am": Excavating digital journalism’s 
lieux de memoire through oral history
Christopher Silver

Chapter 4: Bridging boundary work theory and the social construction of 
technology from a historical perspective: On the construction of 
socio-technical boundaries of digital journalism
Tamas Tofalvy

PART 2: Professionalism and meta-discourses of digital journalism

Chapter 5: The short history of naming journalism in the digital era
Laura Ahva

Chapter 6: Inquiry into the digital sublime: Interrogating the major 
narratives concerning new technologies in journalism research between 
1980 and 2013
Igor Vobič, Jernej Amon Prodnik & Boris Mance

Chapter 7: Digital disruption or union neutralization? A diachronic 
history of tensions between the figures of the professional and the 
worker in the history of a Canadian newspaper
Samuel Lamoureux

Chapter 8: “A whiff of panic”: How journalists in the UK and Germany 
articulated their professional beliefs and identity in crisis times
Imke Henkel

Chapter 9: From bytes to bylines: A history of AI in journalism practices
Carl-Gustav Lindén & Laurence Dierickx

PART 3: Cultures of data, organizations, and journalism practices

Chapter 10: From audience clicks to time spent: Evolution of audience 
analytics and metrics in Norwegian newsrooms
Ana Milojević

Chapter 11: No crisis but cooperation: Construction of online newspapers 
in Nepal
Harsha Man Maharjan

Chapter 12: A singular public model: A history of online journalism 
through DiarideBarcelona.com
Javier Díaz Noci

Chapter 13: Digital journalism in Brazil: A history of diversity in 
products and research
Suzana Barbosa & Otávio Daros

Chapter 14: History of digital journalism in Egypt: Between 
institutionalism and individualism
Nagwa Fahmy & Maha Abdul Majeed Attia

CODA

Chapter 15: Historiography and digital journalism
John Nerone

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