The Handbook of Global Online Journalism

Notes on Contributors viii

1 Introduction: The Evolution of Online Journalism 1
Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglis

Part I Theories 19
2 Media Convergence 21
Infotendencias Group

3 Challenging Values: The "Good" Journalist Online 39
John O'Sullivan

4 Experiencing Journalism: A New Model for Online Newspapers 59
Sue Robinson

5 The Field of Online Journalism: A Bourdieusian Analysis 77
Eugenia Siapera and Lia-Paschalia Spyridou

Part II Politics 99

6 Online Journalism and Civic Life 101
João Carlos Correia

7 De-democratizing the News? New Media and the Structural Practices of Journalism 119
Natalie Fenton

8 Crises, Radical Online Journalism, and the State 135
Lee Salter

9 Forms of Online Journalism and Politics 155
Eugenia Siapera

Part III Production 177

10 Bridging the Gap: Toward a Typology of Cross-media News Production Processes 179
Ivar John Erdal

11 Technology and the Transformation of News Work: Are Labor Conditions in (Online) Journalism Changing? 192
Steve Paulussen

12 Journalism and Cross-media Publishing: The Case of Greece 209
Andreas Veglis

13 The Economics of Online Journalism 231
Richard van der Wurff

Part IV Practices 251

14 Crowdsourcing Investigative Journalism: Help Me Investigate - A Case Study 253
Paul Bradshaw with Andy Brightwell

15 Media Accountability Practices in Online News Media 272
David Domingo and Heikki Heikkilä

16 Technology and Journalism: Conflict and Convergence at the Production Level 290
Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Iraklis Varlamis, and Stelios Kouloglou

17 Social Journalism: Exploring How Social Media is Shaping Journalism 309
Alfred Hermida

Part V Contents 329

18 Online News Reporting of Crisis Events: Investigating the Role of Citizen Witnessing 331
Stuart Allan

19 Contribution to an Online Journalism Language: Multimedia Grammar 353
João Canavilhas

20 The Paradox of Personalization: The Social and Reflexive Turn of Adaptive News 373
Neil

Eugenia Siapera is Lecturer in New Media and Journalism at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of Cultural Diversity and Global Media (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Understanding New Media (2012), and editor of Radical Democracy and the Media (with L. Dahlberg, 2007) and At the Interface (with J. Hands, 2004).Andreas Veglis is Associate Professor and Head of the Media Informatics Lab in the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the author or co-author of ten books, has published dozens of papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented over fifty papers in international and national conferences on various media-related topics.

"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections." ( Choice , 1 October 2013)