Overview
- Examines the impact of social media on Indian journalism
- Provides a survey of nearly 300 journalists from 15 Indian cities
- Offers unique insights into how new forces are influencing journalistic gatekeeping routines
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South (PSJGS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a pan-India study that examines social media’s impact on Indian journalism, highlights emerging challenges, and discusses the way forward for India’s newsrooms. A result of three years of field work, the project uses mixed-methods research – a survey of nearly 300 journalists from 15 Indian cities, followed by in-depth interviews with 25 senior editors – to analyze and explain journalists’ perceptions about social media’s usefulness and credibility, factors that influence their online news sourcing and sharing decisions, resultant challenges for newsrooms, and ways to address those challenges. The findings offer unique insights into how newer forces are influencing journalistic practices in an online-first era. Key differences emerge in perceptions between Indian journalists and their Western compatriots about who or what influence their actions. The findings also raise questions about Gatekeeping as a term to describe journalistic work in 21st Century India's newsrooms. The findings and the conclusions will hopefully help journalists, educators, and anyone interested in Indian journalism gain a deeper, more meaningful understanding about social media’s impact on Indian journalism, and the way ahead for India’s newsrooms.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dhiman Chattopadhyay is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Media, at Shippensburg University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indian Journalism and the Impact of Social Media
Authors: Dhiman Chattopadhyay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07318-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07317-5Published: 22 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07320-5Published: 22 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07318-2Published: 21 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-480X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 257
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Journalism, Social Media, Asian Culture