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SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World


SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World

Hardback by Beckett, Charlie (London School of Economics, UK)

SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World

£74.95

ISBN:
9781405179249
Publication Date:
16 May 2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
216 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 9 May 2024
SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World

Description

SuperMedia is a lively, engaging, and refreshingly-opinionated text offering informed discussion on the importance and future of liberal journalism as a healthy part of a flourishing society. Examines the profound changes journalism is undergoing for social, economic and technological reasons Explores the potential for a entirely new type of journalism which these changes create, discussing the impact of social networking sites and blogs on traditional journalism, and making the case that journalism could be the catalyst for change needed to solve many of the world's problems in a controversial manner Written by a first class broadcast journalist, it provides a practical roadmap for identifying the issues and solutions that will ensure an open and reliable news media for generations to come

Contents

List of Figures. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction: "TheDailyPlanet.com": Why We Must Save Journalism So that Journalism Can Save the World. 1. "Help! Help! Who Will Save Us?": The New Media Landscape. 2. "Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No! It's SuperMedia!": Networked Journalism. 3. "Will Nobody Do Anything to Help?": Networked Journalism and Politics. 4. Fighting Evil: Terror, Community, and Networked Journalism. 5. We Can All be Super Heroes: Networked Journalism in Action: Editorial Diversity and Media Literacy. Suggested Reading. Index.

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