Internet Books

New and Published Books

1. The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates

   Edited by Bob Franklin

   Series: Journalism Studies

   The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates analyses the radical shifts in journalism which are changing every aspect of the gathering, reporting and reception of news. The drivers of these changes include the rapid innovations in communication technologies, the competitive and fragmenting...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Lifestyle Journalism

   Edited by Folker Hanusch

   Series: Journalism Studies

   Lifestyle journalism has experienced enormous growth in the media over the past two decades, but scholars in the fields of journalism and communication studies have so far paid relatively little attention to a field that is still sometimes seen as "not real journalism". There is now an urgent need...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Online Reporting of Elections

   Edited by Einar Thorsen

   Series: Journalism Studies

   This book contributes to debates concerning online reporting of elections and the challenges facing journalism in the context of democratic change. The speed of technological adaptation by journalists and their audiences means online news is gradually becoming a normalised part of media landscapes...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Digital Media and Reporting Conflict

   Blogging and the BBC’s Coverage of War and Terrorism

   By Daniel Bennett

   Series: Routledge Research in Journalism

   This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists’ shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

   By Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

   Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

   By Jessica Reyman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Video Journalism for the Web

   A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling

   By Kurt Lancaster

   As newspapers and broadcast news outlets direct more resources toward online content, print reporters and photojournalists are picking up video cameras and crafting new kinds of stories with their lenses. Creating multimedia video journalism requires more than simply adapting traditional broadcast...

   Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Political Communication in China

    Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System?

    Edited by Wenfang Tang, Shanto Iyengar

    It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge