The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media Is Transforming Journalistic Labor - Softcover

Bossio, Diana; Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Holton, Avery E.; Molyneux, Logan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252087739 ISBN 13: 9780252087738

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2024

Synopsis

Using a framework of online connection and disconnection, The Paradox of Connection examines how journalists’ practices are formed, negotiated, and maintained in dynamic social media environments. The interactions of journalists with the technological, social, and cultural features of online and social media environments have shaped new values and competencies--and the combination of these factors influence online work practices. Merging case studies with analysis, the authors show how the tactics of online connection and disconnection interact with the complex realities of working in today’s media environments. The result is an insightful portrait of fast-changing journalistic practices and their implications for both audiences and professional identities and norms.

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About the Author

Diana Bossio is a senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University and the author of Journalism and Social Media: Practitioners, Organisations, and Institutions. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an associate professor and Cowles fellow in media management at the University of Minnesota and the author of Social Media at BBC News Reporting and coauthor of Journalism Research that Matters and Happiness in Journalism . Avery E. Holton is an associate professor and department chair in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Logan Molyneux is an associate professor of journalism at Temple University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252087739
• ISBN 13: 9780252087738
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184