Digital Currents

How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News

• Author(s): Rena Bivens,
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Pages: 336
• ISBN_10: 1442647779
  ISBN_13: 9781442647770
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Popular Culture , Political Science / World / Canadian , Social Science / General , Political Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:...

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.