Purpose When a concept is diffusely defined or, as this article argues,“taken for granted”, it
becomes very difficult to track such concept on the literature and have some continuity as …

Amid growing difficulties for professionals generally, media workers in particular are
negotiating the increasingly contested boundary space between producers and users in the …

Social media today are playing a more important role as a news source than ever before.
Yet, there have been no longitudinal studies on journalists' sourcing practices in recent …

Scholarship about social media in general, and Twitter in particular, has increased
dramatically in recent years as adoption by individuals and institutions has burgeoned; …

Comments in online news could be the contemporary enactment of the eighteenth-century
cafés that founded public sphere. This article assesses to what extent do these forms of …

The ongoing social media hype puts pressure on journalists to be active in social media
24/7. In this process professional values and journalistic norms are put to the test and not all …

Once upon a time, when the only form of user-generated content was a letter to the editor,
journalists were desperate for feedback. Publishing a news story without any feedback, as …

Some of the iconic images in journalism at the start of the twenty-first century have come
from citizens sharing their experiences of a news event on social media. From the grainy …

Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety
of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the …

Current technological, organizational and institutional changes fundamentally alter the
relationship between journalism and its audience–with consequences not only for …