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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Larrondo Ureta, Ainara
• Peña Fernández, Simón
• Sjøvaag, Helle

Titel

Repositioning Journalism Within the Current Technological Context: Approaches from the Practice and Epistemology of the Profession

Ist Teil von

• Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media, p.25-38

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• News consumption via screens and social media seems to push the profession towards immediacy, superficiality and decontextualization. At an editorial and management level, technology-related changes represent the main axis of the current debate, focused on decisive issues such as profitability, loss of quality and of influence among multi-platform fragmented audiences. In the newsroom, this debate is accompanied by the constant search for innovative models based on hi-tech immersive narratives and social media narratives, such as transmedia. Within this context, this chapter deals with how the practice, research and theorization of the journalist profession are being redirected towards positions that are both technologist and epistemological; while at the same time trying to recuperate the significance of journalism and its social function, together with the social corporate responsibility of media companies. These stances might generate a valuable fusion for repositioning the profession and its raison d’être in a hybrid news media system.