The Penetration of Online News

As the recent unprecedented penetration of onlinenews into societies has shown no sign of stopping,there is still insufficient knowledge about thesocio-technical dynamics of its diffusion to helpforecast its future. What drives/impedes thetake-up of online technologies in the newsroom? Inwhat way do the much-touted features of online newscontribute to the way people adopt, use and integrateit into daily life? How is this process affected byusers' existing socio-psychological conditions (e.g.social status, news orientation, atttudes to newtechnologies, Internet experience)? Will online newsgradually displace and then replace older newsforms? Does the rise of blogs, forums and other "Web2.0" platforms spell a slow death of journalism? Whatdoes all this mean for the future of news? This bookexplores the 160-year evolution of online news toanswer these and related questions. Employinghistorical and survey data with an interdisciplinaryand international perspective, it is directed to bothnewspeople and scholars in journalism studies,Internet studies, audience research, media sociology,media history, media economics, media psychology,innovation diffusion and so on.