Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism

This book provides a detailed insight into the current state of journalism and its future challenges. Offering new insights into this fast-developing area, this volume will be an engaging and vital resource for media professionals and researchers in journalism and communication studies.

Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism provides detailed insight into the current state of journalism and its future challenges.

The book brings together a global team of authors to review and analyse emerging practices in the automated digital scenario through which journalism is being reshaped, such as novel languages, storytelling forms, and business models. Providing a much-needed review of the field to apprehend the knowledge and experience acquired, the collection also offers an up-to-date overview of digital journalism today, outlining those trends pointing to the future of journalism practice and media in the online sphere.

Through a multidisciplinary and international approach, chapters delve into the main technological changes that digital journalism has recently faced, closely related to digital native media, novel storytelling forms, social media, innovation, television broadcasting, new media management structures and procedures, content automation, fact-checking, web analytics, and social audiences.

Offering new insights into this fast-developing area, this volume will be an engaging and vital resource for media professionals and researchers in journalism and communication studies, as well as those interested in contemporary journalism practice and communication technology.

Autorentext

Berta García-Orosa is Full Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She has studied communication and politics for more than 20 years, collaborated in more than 50 research projects, and published over 100 articles and chapters.

Sara Pérez-Seijo is Researcher at Novos Medios, holds a PhD in Communication and Contemporary Information from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and is Visiting Scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Ángel Vizoso is Researcher at Novos Medios, holds a PhD in Communication from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and is Visiting Scholar at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Inhalt

Introduction; 1. Digital Journalism: From Reinvention to Constant Innovation; 2. Digital Native Fact-Checkers Around the World: Notes on their Development, Main Features, and Verification Models; 3. Journalism and Analytics: The Tension Between Journalistic Criteria and Data; 4. The Role of Mobile Media in Journalism Education; 5. Young Audience Wanted! Journalism Looks to the Future; 6. Immersed in the News: How VR and 360-degree Videos Have Triggered a Shift in Journalistic Storytelling; 7. Social Audience and Media; 8. Journalism's Cruise Control: How Can Public Service Media Outlets Benefit From AI and Automation?; 9. Recommender Systems in Major Media Platforms: Design, Tendencies, and Purposes; 10. Minorities in Journalism: The Mexican Femicide in Digital Native Media; 11. Integration of Digital Technology in TV Production: Trends and Practices in Aljazeera, AJA