The Electronic grapevine : rumor, reputation, and reporting in the new on-line environment / edited by Diane L. Borden, Kerric Harvey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borden, Diane L.

Harvey, Kerric.

Series:

Telecommunications (Mahwah, N.J.)

Telecommunications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Data processing.

Journalism.

Internet.

Information networks.

Physical Description:

vi, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Summary:

An examination of how the Internet has affected journalism, drawing from scholarly work and real life experiences of journalists. For students of telecommunications and journalism, as well as scholars in those fields.

Contents:

The future of journalism in a distributed communication architecture / John E. Newhagen & MarK R. Levy

Public opinion, expert opinion, and the illusion of consensus, gleaning points of view electronically / Susanna Hornig Priest

The blurring of the line between advertising and journalism in on-line environment / Wendy S. Williams

Niche-market culture, off and on line / Patricia Aufderheide

Cyberspace, a consensual hallucination / Jason Primuth

Going on line with the U.S. constitution, gender discussions in the cultural context of the First Amendment / Kerric Harvey

Cyberlibel, time to flame the Times standard / Diane L. Borden

The campus press, a practical approach to on-line newspapers / Bruce Henderson & Jan Fernback

Technology and journalism in the electronic newsroom / L. Carol Christopher

Journalists' use of on-line technology and on-line sources / Steven S. Ross

Content analysis in an era of interactive news, assessing 21st century symbolic environments / William Evans

Making sense of the new on-line environment in the context of tradtional mass communications study / Kevin Kawamoto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0805821716

0805821724

OCLC:

37353770