What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7499495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Perreault (0000-0002-6645-1117, Appalachian State University, corresponding author), Patrick Ferrucci (0000-0002-4535-0210, University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1298-1316 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21670811.2020.1848442 |
| OpenAlex | W3111668913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 62 |
Through the lens of theories of field and normalization process, this research seeks to understand technology’s current role in how self-identifying digital journalists define the field. The definitions of digital journalism/journalists and what constitutes digital journalism practices are essential–they shape a range of crucial activities including how journalists prioritize sources to how journalists shape their content for audience consumption. Built on long-form interviews with 68 U.S.-based self-identifying digital journalists, this article argues that the digital turn in the industry has emboldened new entrants to the field and required dominantly placed legacy media journalists to reconsider their definition of journalism as well as their practices. Rather than seeing digital journalism as a sub-field within journalism, participants saw digital journalism as business-as-usual throughout the journalistic field
Citizen journalism · Digital media · Field (mathematics · Journalism · Media studies · Normalization (sociology · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Digital Games and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Law
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“Living Amoeba of an Organization”
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Technological Advances Affect Journalists' Reporting Styles
Public engagement through public service advertisements for health care awareness during early Covid-19 in Pakistan
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice
New Objects, New Boundaries
Phases of Going Digital
Mitigating Hostility in Digital Journalism
Bringing People into the Story
Aspirational Metajournalism
Epistemologies of Digital News Production
Covering religion
Normalizing platform logic
Beyond the big city
Beyond contestation
A framework for examining hybridity
Normalizing Open Science Practice
Newspaper executives’ positioning toward the evolving use of social media
What’s with the water
Inteligencia artificial en la prensa
Resisting Protestant Hegemony
Open access, closed systems
Conceptualising Youth Media Strategies
“It’s Not Hate but … ”
When digital audiences disregard the journalistic agenda
Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism
Clickbait Contagion in International Quality Media
Digitalization of Media Work and Resocialization in the Indian Urdu Daily Inquilab
Reshaping Sports Journalism Through Innovation
Joining the Team
I Feel Burnout as a Journalist”
Journalism Civic Self-Efficacy
How the Pandemic Shaped the Digital Skills of Journalists in Turkey
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Building Boundaries
Textual analysis of (co-)production of humanitarian news
Newswork in crisis
Sports Journalism’s Uncertain Future
Do Algorithms Do It Better? Analysing Occupational Ideology in the Age of Computational Journalism
Local is now national
The value of podcasts to journalism
Performance of journalistic professional roles in digital native media news in Spain
El Desafío de las Audiencias Como Motor (re) Activo del Cambio Periodístico
Impacto de la inteligencia artificial y digitalización en los perfiles periodísticos
Field insurgency in lifestyle journalism
Normalizing Instagram
What is Sports Journalism? How Covid-19 Accelerated a Redefining of U.S. Sports Reporting
Remodeling the Hierarchy
Evolution, trends and future of native media
The Liability of Newness
Diffusion of innovations in digital journalism
A history of digital environmental journalism at the BBC and the Guardian
Metajournalistic Discourse as a Stabilizer within the Journalistic Field
Disruptions in Normalization
Gleaning Rural Journalism
Digital News and Political Tweets in the Lower Austrian Municipal Elections
Digitizing the News
Making News at The New York Times
Gatekeeping Theory
The Convergence Continuum
Who’s in, Who’s out?
Normalisation process theory
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The discursive construction of the gamification of journalism
Who am I? Perceptions of Digital Journalists’ Professional Identity
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Making Nonprofit News
The 5Ws and 1H of Digital Journalism
Digital Journalism as Symptom, Response, and Agent of Change in the Platformed Media Environment
Why Journalism Is About More Than Digital Technology
The State Nobility
Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism
Fake News as a Critical Incident in Journalism
A Badge of Honor
No piracy talk”
Navigating the Scholarly Terrain
Journalism
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies
Digital Journalism
The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism
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The Web as Television Reimagined? Online Networks and the Pursuit of Legacy Media
Cached
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A Contemporary History of Digital Journalism
Funding Journalism in the Digital Age
Journalistic Responses to Technological Innovation in Newsrooms
Journalism is twerking? How web analytics is changing the process of gatekeeping
News Algorithms, Photojournalism and the Assumption of Mechanical Objectivity in Journalism
Out of bounds? How Gawker ’s outing a married man fits into the boundaries of journalism
Giving in or giving up
On the Boundaries
We’ve Lost the Basics
Metajournalistic discourse on the rise of gaming journalism
Why the h**l is There a White House Correspondents’ Dinner?” Boundary Work in Political Journalism
New media, old criticism
The objectivity norm in American journalism
The GamerGate controversy and journalistic paradigm maintenance
It is in the numbers
Worlds of Journalism
Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In
Social Control in the Newsroom
Qualitative Approaches to Mixed Methods Practice
Implementing, Embedding, and Integrating Practices
Bourdieu, Technique And Technology
Field theory in comparative context
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |