Online journalism : a critical primer / Jim Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Jim, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Online Journalism is revolutionising the way news is reported and read. The rise of the internet has forever changed the way audiences interact with the news - stories are posted the moment they break and readers routinely expect to be able to access both the news sources and local perspectives. Online news and the pattern of media ownership raise a number of urgent questions about accuracy, press autonomy, freedom of speech and economic exclusion. Jim Hall provides a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of cyberjournalism and examines the issues it raises. Looking at how interactive texts are both written and read, the book surveys the new technologies and conventions that online journalism has ushered in. The author uses case studies such as Monicagate and the war in Kosovo to illustrate both the opportunities and the limitations of cyberjournalism.It is designed as a text to introduce how cyberjournalism works and how it can be used in innovative ways.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Notes on Usage

1. The Information Society

Audiences and Producers in the Information Society

New Models of News and Readership

A New Medium

Shovelware and 'Getting' the Web

Content Providers and Aggregators

New Audiences

Conclusion

2. The Nature of News

Impartiality and Objectivity

Truth

Interactivity

Disintermediation

Immediacy

The Columbine School Killings

3. From Photosetting to XML

Hypertext, New Ways of Writing and Narrative

Design and HTML

The Virtual Newsroom

The Online Journalist

4. Armageddon.com: Home Pages and Refugees

News from Open Sources

The Allegory of the Good War

An Allegory for Kosovo

The Virtual Caravelle

News from the Front

The Information War

A Wired Country

5. 'Too Fresh to be True': Acceleration, Ethics and the Spectacle

The Spectacularisation of News

Myfirsttime.com: the Banalisation of News

Journalism Ethics on the Web and the Crisis of Legitimacy

The Return of the Real

6. 'Undertakings of Great Advantage'

The News Online

The Free Content Revolution

Church and State

The Media Oligopoly

The Privatisation of the Internet

Electronic Capitalism

7. 'That Balance' and the New World Information Order

Gatekeepers in the Machine

Censorship

Privacy and Surveillance

Censorship or Constraint

Copyright and Intellectual Property

The World Information Order

8. The ( Re) construction of Reality: Local and Global Journalisms

Global Journalisms

The Loss of the Peripheral

The Global Information Society and the Media Cartel

The Planetary News

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Glossary

Bibliography

Web.

Index

A.G. 113-15

ABC 134

accuracy

143-4

148

151

adjacency 145

Adona 113

AdOne Classified Network 166

advertising

9

24-5

143-7

149-51

154

157

160-2

164-73

178

183

204

218

224

225

229

ad-bots 168

advertorials 172

banners 167

banners 171

banners 173

classified 163

classified 166

classified 177

classified 229

extramercials 167

falling revenue 167

affiliate agreements 146

Agani, Fehmi [reported assassination] 122

Agence France-Presse 33

agency problem 179

aggregator

5

32

AHN.com 138

Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya 39

Al Murabeton 39

Albright, Madeleine 192

Albrow, Martin

216-17

229-30

alienation 103

allegories of war

105-7

116-17

121

124-5

126

AltaVista

77

128

Althusser, Louis 136

Amazon.com 158

American Editor 144

American Society of Magazine Editors 174

Amnesty.org [bogus] 194

Anonymizer Inc. 102

Anti-Defamation League 188

AOL [America Online]

23

58

163

179

proposed merger with Time Warner and EMI 223

proposed merger with Time Warner and EMI 224

appearance on MSNBC chatline 111

Apple Computer 19

Arabic Media Internet Network [AMIN] 193-4

Archer, Jeffrey 146

archives [newspaper]

29

57

78

163-5

Arizona Daily Star 212

Arkan [Zeljko Raznatovic] 111

arts reviews 90

Asia Crisis Homepage

44

227

Association for Progressive Communications 95

Auckland, Marc 160

audience

15

34-6

Audit Bureau of Circulation 167

Bagdikian, Ben

46

162

173

174-5

207

Media Monopoly 174

Media Monopoly 223

balance

134

143

bandwidth 17-18

Bangemann, Martin

13

207-8

Baran, Nicholas 181

Barlow, John Perry

206.

207

Basra road 103

Basys 83

Baudrillard, Jean

47

114

141

BBC News Online

17

36

69

75

84

98

104

118

129

226

Beach Committee 94

Belgrade

114-15

Chinese Embassy 119

Belgrano 125

Bentham, Jeremy 198

Beogradjanka 119-20

Berlusconi, Silvio 175

Berners-Lee, Tim

2

11

199

230

birth, live on the web 138

Black Hand 120

Blair, Tony 125

Boersen 164

Bogojevic, Alex 115

bogus 98

Bosnia

95

Boston Globe

115

Bourdieu, Pierre 46

BPA International 167

Broadcasting Services Amendment [Online Services] Bill [Australia] 195

Brown, Chip

159-60

Brown, Derek 88

Brown, Merrill [editor-in-chief MSNBC] 108

browsers

80

Mosaic 27

Bulgaria 193

Burma 186

Bush, George

106

Business Times [Singapore] 82

Byrd, Joann 143

B[

B[ 97-8

B[ 113-14

B[ 126

B[ 194

cable television

176

181

alternatives to the Internet 181

Calabresi, Massimo 111

Campbell, Alistair [Tony Blair's press secretary]

120

123

Camus, Albert 47

capitalism

223

Caravelle Bar 109

cartel [media]

147

174

201

205

216

222-4

Case, Steve

54

Castanet 75

Cato Institute 213

censorship

94-5

185

191-3

196

200

censorware

188-92

195

audit trails 189

Chancellor, Edward 158

Chatham House Forum 183

Chen, Kathy

192

193

Chicago Tribune

27

60

Child Online Protection Act [USA] 186

China 191-3

Chomsky, Noam

propaganda model of media 140

propaganda model of media 183

Christian Science Monitor 118

Clayton, Leigh 210

Clinton, Bill

40

142

153

failed impeachment process 139.

failed impeachment process 141

failed impeachment process 154

falsely alleged son 129

Clinton, Hillary

133-4

clones 186

CNN

30

65

81

110

111

113

125

Cohen, William [US Secretary of Defense] 106

Columbia Journalism Review

212

Columbine School killings

7

45

53

56-63

68

91

198

221

common carrier

176-7

206

communication compression 136

Communications Decency Act [USA]

186

communities of interest

210

212-13

community media

21-2

25

61

87

154-7

211-12

confidence in the web 194

consumers

180

211

convergence [media] 6

cookies

145

168-9

191

copyright

10

202-4

Corbis 165

corporate crime 147

credibility 36

Cricinfo.com 18

CustomNews 2

Cyber Patrol

188-9

Cyberporn 201

CyberSitter 188

cynicism 155

d'Agonstino, Fred 151

Daily Herald 161

Daily Me

20

24

138

190

Daily Telegraph

31

Danish, Sohaila 48

Darlington, Roger [UK Internet Watch Foundation] 187

databases 52

Dayan and Katz

138-9

140

152

deadlines 81

Debord, Guy 137

Deja News 188

democracy

38

156

213

215

220

Democracy Movement [China] 192

Dempsey, Gary 213

Denning, Dorothy 196

Denver Post Online

Department of Commerce [US] 'The Emerging Digital Economy' 159

deregulation

Dewey, John 156

Diana [Princess of Wales]

19

165

Discovery Channel Online 17

disintermediation

8

133

139-40

disorganised capitalism 217.

Dolan, Frederick M. 105-6

Drudge Report

33

55

128-9

144

150

154-5

Drudge, Matt

130-5

147-8

153-4

e-commerce 166

Eastern Express 196

Economist, The 29

Egypt 39

electronic capitalism

181-3

accelerated business cycle 182

Electronic Frontier Foundation

email

as a distribution system 29

interception 39

encryption

Engdahl, Todd 60

European Commission 13

Excite

59

79

Exon, Senator James

fair use 203

fairness 148

Falklands War

48

94

Fallows, James

36-7

50

Falun Gong 192

filtered content 177

filters [software]

188

Financial Times

90

164

FinnInvest 175

Fishwrap

19-21

22

Fiske, John 136

flaming 117

Flynt, Larry 131

foreign correspondents

109-10

Foucault, Michel 198

Fox News

frames

capture 204

free content

169-70

184

freedom of speech

199-200

Freeserve 158

Frissen, Paul

99

Full Coverage [Yahoo!] 32-3

Future Unit [UK Department of Trade and Industry]

53-4

92

159

167

gatekeeping

130

Gates, Bill

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 188

genetic modification

genocide 106

Gerbner, George 54

ghost sites 215

Gilmore, John 193

Gitlin, Todd 136

globalisation

222

globality

220-2

Globe 130

Go [Disney]

Goble, Paul 111-12

Goh Mui 196

Golding, Peter 219

Gore, Al

26

gossip

132

154-6.

Goulding, Peter [US Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs] 108.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849645232

184964523X

9780585426013

0585426015

OCLC:

50811091