New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age by Natalie Fent

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A piercing examination of why understanding news journalism matters now more than ever in this age of rapidly changing communication technologies.

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Have new communications technologies revitalised the public sphere, or become the commercial tool for an increasingly un-public, undemocratic news media? Are changing journalistic practices damaging the nature of news, or are new media allowing journalists to do more journalism and to engage the public more effectively?With massive changes in the media environment and its technologies, interrogating the nature of news journalism is one of the most urgent tasks we face in defining the public interest today. The implications are serious, not just for the future of the news, but also for the practice of democracy.In a thorough empirical investigation of journalistic practices in different news contexts, New Media, Old News explores how technological, economic and social changes have reconfigured news journalism, and the consequences of these transformations for a vibrant democracy in our digital age. The result is a piercing examination of why understanding news journalism matters now more than ever. It is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism and new media.

Author Biography

Natalie Fenton is a Professor of Media and Communications and Co-Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. She has published widely on issues relating to civil society, radical politics, digital media, news and journalism and is particularly interested in issues of political transformation, radical media reform and re-imagining democracy. She was Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the campaign group Hacked Off for 7 years and is currently Chair of the UK Media Reform Coalition. Her books include New Media: Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age (Sage, 2010); Misunderstanding the Internet co-authored with James Curran and Des Freedman (Routledge, 2016); Digital, Political, Radical (2016, Polity); Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political Communications co-authored with Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aeron Davis (Sage, 2020) and The Media Manifesto co-authored with Lina Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik (Polity, 2020).

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONDrowning or Waving? New media, Journalism and Democracy - Natalie FentonPART TWO: NEW MEDIA AND NEWS IN CONTEXTTechnology Foretold - James CurranThe Political Economy of the ′New′ News Environment - Des FreedmanAn Ethical Deficit? Accountability, Norms, and the Material Conditions of Contemporary Journalism - Angela Phillips, Nick Couldry, Des FreedmanPART THREE: NEW MEDIA AND NEWS IN PRACTICECulture Shock: New Media and Organizational Change in the BBC - Peter Lee-WrightOld Sources: New Bottles - Angela PhillipsLiberal Dreams and the Internet: A Case Study - James Curran and Tamara WitschgePART FOUR: NEW MEDIA, NEWS SOURCES, NEW JOURNALISM?Politics, Journalism and New Media: Virtual Iron Cages in the New Culture of Capitalism - Aeron DavisNew Online News Sources and Writer-Gatherers - Nick CouldryNGOs, New Media and the Mainstream News: News from Everywhere - Natalie FentonPART FIVE: NEW MEDIA, NEWS CONTENT AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTA New News Order? Online News Content Examined - Joanna Redden and Tamara WitschgeFutures of the News: International Considerations and Further Reflections - Rodney Benson

Review

This important book brilliantly explores the contradiction between the transforming potential of new technologies and the stifling constraints of the free market and corporate powerGreg PhiloGlasgow University Media GroupIn the great and significant debate about the future of news and information, Natalie Fenton has identified important new players and new ways in which society will be educated in the world in which they function. Few people have come so freshly and perceptively to describe the ethical and other challenges that occur when old reportorial modes are so substantially alteredMonroe PriceDirector, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of PennsylvaniaEveryone knows that the internet "changes everything." But hardly anyone has studied it systematically enough to say anything more specific about how exactly it changes things. Here′s a collection that provides some real evidence about how the internet is and isn′t changing journalism and political communication. The essays that make up this volume are rich with real-life data about the working lives of journalists, bloggers, politicians and more, and also with sophisticated insight about how technology interacts with political and economic change. The analysis it provides is broad and nuanced, giving a complex sense of the range of different forms of news and debate that exist onlineDan HallinProfessor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of California, San DiegoThis is journalism scholarship at its very best. New Media, Old News offers a radical and provocative assessment of the complexities of news, news media and journalism in the age of digital media and global news. Authoritative, yet accessible, this collection will undoubtedly shape scholarly and public debate about journalism and new media. But it also articulates a passionate commitment to the view that - more than ever - "news matters". This book is nothing less than essential reading for everyone interested in the past, present and future of news and journalismBob FranklinProfessor of Journalism Studies, Cardiff University

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This important book brilliantly explores the contradiction between the transforming potential of new technologies and the stifling constraints of the free market and corporate power Greg Philo Glasgow University Media Group In the great and significant debate about the future of news and information, Natalie Fenton has identified important new players and new ways in which society will be educated in the world in which they function. Few people have come so freshly and perceptively to describe the ethical and other challenges that occur when old reportorial modes are so substantially altered Monroe Price Director, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Everyone knows that the internet "changes everything." But hardly anyone has studied it systematically enough to say anything more specific about how exactly it changes things. Here's a collection that provides some real evidence about how the internet is and isn't changing journalism and political communication. The essays that make up this volume are rich with real-life data about the working lives of journalists, bloggers, politicians and more, and also with sophisticated insight about how technology interacts with political and economic change. The analysis it provides is broad and nuanced, giving a complex sense of the range of different forms of news and debate that exist online Dan Hallin Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego This is journalism scholarship at its very best. New Media, Old News offers a radical and provocative assessment of the complexities of news, news media and journalism in the age of digital media and global news. Authoritative, yet accessible, this collection will undoubtedly shape scholarly and public debate about journalism and new media. But it also articulates a passionate commitment to the view that - more than ever - "news matters". This book is nothing less than essential reading for everyone interested in the past, present and future of news and journalism Bob Franklin Professor of Journalism Studies, Cardiff University

Details ISBN1847875734 Year 2009 ISBN-10 1847875734 ISBN-13 9781847875730 Format Hardcover Subtitle Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Natalie Fenton Author Natalie Fenton DEWEY 302.23 Short Title NEW MEDIA OLD NEWS Language English Media Book Pages 232 Publication Date 2009-10-21 Illustrations Yes UK Release Date 2009-10-21 NZ Release Date 2009-10-21 Affiliation Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge Qualifications OBE Alternative 9781847875747 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2009-10-20 We've got this

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