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Rena Bivens - Digital Currents - 9781442647770 - V9781442647770
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Digital Currents

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Description for Digital Currents Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442647770
SKU
V9781442647770
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Rena Bivens
Rena Bivens is a Government of Canada Banting Fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

Reviews for Digital Currents
“Digital Currents is a fascinating and detailed look at the inner mechanisms of television news production, news organizations, and journalistic labour, as they navigate the many challenges and opportunities of an era of declining budgets, vibrant forms of citizen journalism, and innovative uses of social media.”
Leslie Regan Shade, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto “A timely reaffirmation of ... Read more

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