Title
Digital currents [electronic resource] : how technology and the public are shaping TV news / Rena Bivens.
ISBN
9781442669161 electronic book
9781442647770
9781442615861
Published
Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 321 pages) : illustration.
Call Number
PN4784.T34 B59 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
070.4/30285
Summary
"Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional and citizen journalists blurring like never before, Digital Currents illuminates the behind-the-scenes efforts of television newscasters to embrace the public's participation in news and information gathering and protect the integrity of professional journalism. Using interviews with more than one hundred journalists from eight networks in Canada and the United Kingdom, Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices. The first book to examine the many ways that the public has entered the production of mainstream news, Digital Currents underscores the central importance of media literacy in the age of widespread news sources."--Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
1 Digital Media, Cultural Shifts, and Television News Production
2 Constraining News Production: The View from the Twentieth Century
3 The Technology-Autonomy-Constraint Model
4 Intake Phase: Information Producers and News Flow
5 Selection and Assignment Phase
6 News-Gathering, Story-Writing, and Transmission Phases
7 External Pressures: Audiences, Governments, and Public Relations
8 Making News: Power, Journalists, and the Public
Appendix : List of Interviews.
