Overview
- Presents case studies of news media employing social media into their news production practices
- Has a special focus on start-up news media in Africa
- links social media use to journalistic practices in the digital age of the Global South
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South (PSJGS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Newsmaking Cultures and Digital Media Innovations
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Social Media, Funding Models and Participatory Cultures
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About this book
This volume presents case studies of news media employing and integrating social media into their news production practices. It links social media use to journalistic practices and news production processes in the digital age of the Global South. Critically, the chapters look at seminal cases of start-up news media whose content is informed by trends in social media, ethical considerations and participatory cultures spurred by the wide use of social media.
There has been considerable research looking at the potential of new media technologies, traditional journalism and citizen reporting. The extent to which these new media technologies and ‘citizen journalism’ have morphed or reconfigured traditional journalism practice remains debatable. Currently, there are questions around the limits of social media in journalism practice as the ethical lines continue to become blurred. It is this conundrum of the role of social media in the reconfiguration of the media, news making, production and participatory cultures that requires more investigation. Social media has also turned the logic of the political economy of media production on its head as citizens can now produce, package and distribute news and information with shoestring budgets and in authoritarian regimes with no license of practice. This new political economy means the power that special interest groups used to enjoy is increasingly slipping from their hands as citizens take back the power to appropriate social media journalism to counter hegemonic narratives. Citizens can also perform journalistic roles of investigating and whistleblowing but with a lack off, or limited, regulation. This volume seeks to explore and untangle these issues, and provides an invaluable resource for researchers across the field of journalism, mass media, and communication studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Trust Matsilele is senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Public Relations, Cape Peninsula University of Science and Technology, South Africa.
Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at UNISA, South Africa.
Dumisani Moyo is Executive Dean of Humanities at North West University, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa
Book Subtitle: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking Cultures
Editors: Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu, Dumisani Moyo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23625-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23624-2Published: 25 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23627-3Published: 26 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23625-9Published: 24 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-480X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4818
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 319
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Journalism, Political Communication, Media Studies, African Culture