Digital Currents : : How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News / / Rena Bivens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bivens, Rena,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 1 figure

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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: Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index