The Handbook of Global Online Journalism (eBook)

Eugenia Siapera is Lecturer in New Media and Journalism atthe Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author ofCultural Diversity and Global Media (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)and Understanding New Media (2012), and editor of RadicalDemocracy and the Media (with L. Dahlberg, 2007) and At theInterface (with J. Hands, 2004). Andreas Veglis is Associate Professor and Head of theMedia Informatics Lab in the Department of Journalism & MassCommunication at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He isthe author or co-author of ten books, has published dozens ofpapers in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented over fiftypapers in international and national conferences on variousmedia-related topics.

Notes on Contributors viii

1 Introduction: The Evolution of Online Journalism 1
Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglis

Part I Theories 19

2 Media Convergence 21
Infotendencias Group

3 Challenging Values: The "Good" Journalist Online 39
John O'Sullivan

4 Experiencing Journalism: A New Model for Online Newspapers59
Sue Robinson

5 The Field of Online Journalism: A Bourdieusian Analysis77
Eugenia Siapera and Lia-Paschalia Spyridou

Part II Politics 99

6 Online Journalism and Civic Life 101
João Carlos Correia

7 De-democratizing the News? New Media and the StructuralPractices of Journalism 119
Natalie Fenton

8 Crises, Radical Online Journalism, and the State 135
Lee Salter

9 Forms of Online Journalism and Politics 155
Eugenia Siapera

Part III Production 177

10 Bridging the Gap: Toward a Typology of Cross-media NewsProduction Processes 179
Ivar John Erdal

11 Technology and the Transformation of News Work: Are LaborConditions in (Online) Journalism Changing? 192
Steve Paulussen

12 Journalism and Cross-media Publishing: The Case of Greece209
Andreas Veglis

13 The Economics of Online Journalism 231
Richard van der Wurff

Part IV Practices 251

14 Crowdsourcing Investigative Journalism: Help Me Investigate- A Case Study 253
Paul Bradshaw with Andy Brightwell

15 Media Accountability Practices in Online News Media 272
David Domingo and Heikki Heikkilä

16 Technology and Journalism: Conflict and Convergence at theProduction Level 290
Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Iraklis Varlamis, and SteliosKouloglou

17 Social Journalism: Exploring How Social Media is ShapingJournalism 309
Alfred Hermida

Part V Contents 329

18 Online News Reporting of Crisis Events: Investigating theRole of Citizen Witnessing 331
Stuart Allan

19 Contribution to an Online Journalism Language: MultimediaGrammar 353
João Canavilhas

20 The Paradox of Personalization: The Social and Reflexive Turnof Adaptive News 373
Neil Thurman and Steve Schifferes

Part VI Global Contexts 393

21 Brazilian News Blogs and Mainstream News Organizations:Tensions, Symbiosis, or Independency? 395
Olga Guedes Bailey and Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques

22 A Chance for Diversity? Australian Online Journalism412
Axel Bruns

23 Online Journalism in Germany 429
Thomas Hanitzsch and Thorsten Quandt

24 The Evolution and Challenges of Online Journalism in Nigeria445
Farooq A. Kperogi

25 Doing Journalism Online: How UK News Organizations HaveAdapted in the Age of the Internet 462
Kostas Saltzis

26 J-blogging in China: Development, Significance, andChallenges 478
Jin Shang and Hao Zhang

Index 494

"An ideal overview of scholarship about journalism and the Internet ... A strength of the book is its international contributors and examples that speak of broad phenomena without simply letting US cases stand for the whole world." (Choice, 1 October 2013)

"Scholarly, radical and relevant, The Handbook of GlobalOnline Journalism offers a thoroughgoing account of the digitalrevolution which is transforming every aspect of journalism and theways in which news is produced, distributed and consumed. It makescompelling and thought provoking reading for anyone who isinterested in analysing the ways in which the future of journalismis unravelling."
- Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies, CardiffUniversity, UK

"The worldwide fusion of technologies and cultures ofjournalism calls for integrative and interdisciplinary work. Withthis magnificent volume, Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglisbenchmark the road ahead."
- Mark Deuze, Indiana University