Social media platforms have captured the attention and imagination of many millions of
people, enabling their users to develop and display their creativity, to empathize with others …

Writing a book about social media is about as hard as it can get. Once the platform practices
have been documented and analysed, they have already passed their hashtagged used-by …

This study, based on interviews with journalists representing major news organizations in
Finland and Sweden, explores how the professional ideology of journalists is shaped by the …

The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science.
The 'data-drivenness' of computational research can occur at the expense of theoretical …

The relationship between media and politics today is deeply entrenched in the wide use of
information and communication technologies to the point that scholars speak about the …

Digital media transform news. First, we see this in changing use patterns. Young people
today show a decline in interest in traditional news formats and practices, such as watching …

Police accountability organizations known as “cop-watching” groups are proliferating thanks
to smartphone penetration and the ease of video sharing on social networks. These groups …

Citizen Journalism explores citizen participation in the news as an evolving disruptive
practice in digital journalism. This volume moves beyond the debates over the mainstream …

Exactly what constitutes environmental journalism has become more difficult to define in
today's crowded multimedia and social media landscape. While environmental journalism is …

Citizen and participatory journalism occupy key positions in today's news media
environment, having become expected, regularized components of breaking and other …