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News, public affairs, and the public sphere in a digital nation : rise of the audience / Edgar Simpson.
Van Pelt Library PN4867.2 .S56 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Edgar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--United States.
- Journalism.
- Social media.
- Journalism--Technological innovations.
- Online journalism.
- Social aspects.
- Online journalism--Political aspects.
- Citizen journalism.
- United States.
- Citizen journalism--Political aspects--United States.
- Citizen journalism--Social aspects--United States.
- Online journalism--Political aspects--United States.
- Online journalism--Social aspects--United States.
- Journalism--Technological innovations--United States.
- Social media--United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- Missing from the ongoing conversation about the titanic forces reshaping national journalism is the meaning of daily professional journalism in communities where the majority of Americans live. Edgar Simpson spent a year intimately engaged with all of the news streams available in two Midwest counties-one where a daily newspaper had closed and one where a daily newspaper continues to operate-to better understand and illuminate national news trends and translate them to specific communities. News, Public Affairs, and the Public Sphere in a Digital Nation. Rise of the Audience Outlines the clear implications for representative democracy in the face of a daily professional journalism in retreat. If the U.S. system is to thrive, more resources at the community level must be marshaled to support journalism. Further, citizens will have to become increasingly sophisticated in understanding the type of content they are consuming and, more importantly, what information they are not consuming. This book not only puts the problems in stark terms but offers unique, community-based solutions. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Rise of the Audience 5
- 2 The Shifting News Landscape 35
- 3 Pixels, Posts, and Producers 73
- 4 Building Their Own Narrative 101
- 5 The Mean Sphere and The Empty Sphere 123
- 6 #chardonshooting: the Inverted Sphere 149
- 7 Citizens and Journalism 175
- 8 Jornalism 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739190159
- 0739190156
- OCLC:
- 879583511
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