Overview
- First of its kind on Digital Journalism with perspectives from South Asia
- Identifies best practices in the evolution of digital journalism
- Analyses the role of digital technology in transforming journalism
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Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Digital Journalism in South Asia: Concept, Evolution and Growth
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Digital Journalism: Lessons from South Asian Countries
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Digital Journalism: News Content, Production and Consumption
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About this book
This book presents perspectives from South Asian countries, such as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. It brings in-depth perspectives on content, communication, and community between communication theory and the digital news ecosystem rooted in a South Asian culture-centric approach. The book thoroughly investigates changes in the regulatory framework, regulations, policies, and code of conduct. It engages debates on digital journalism practices modeled around mobile journalism, immersive storytelling, and gamification in the context of local and hyper-local communities in South Asia. The book provides a cohesive compilation offering readers an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of digital developments in journalism. It also helps journalists and practitioners working in news media to discover new types of information flows in a rapidly changing news media landscape.
Digital Journalism: Perspectives from South Asia is a descriptive, exploratory book on digital journalism practices and policies followed in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. It brings in-depth perspectives on content, communication, and community between communication theory and the digital news ecosystem rooted in a South Asia. What makes this book interesting to read is the integration of forms with manifestations on ground intersecting identities and ideologies. The book thoroughly investigates changes in the regulatory framework, regulations, policies, and code of conduct. Various chapters in the book pursue significant and exciting topics on the changing spaces of news production and consumption, the inter relationship between old and new media, everyday digital news usage and engagement, social media for news, revenue models for digital journalism among others. The highlight of this book is engaging debates on digital journalism practices modeled around mobile journalism, immersive storytelling, gamification, in the context of local and hyper local communities in South Asia. Since Digital Journalism draws extensively from algorithms, matrices and analytics, this book has exclusive chapters on data journalism, data visualization and big data.. The book provides a cohesive compilation offering readers an up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of digital developments in journalism. It also helps journalists and practitioners working in news media to discover new types of information flows in a rapidly changing news media landscape. It also articulates indegenous concerns of journalists, their security, risks and challenges as they explore the new contours of journalistic practices.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Digital Journalism
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from South Asia
Editors: Surbhi Dahiya, Kulveen Trehan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6675-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
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 Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6674-5Published: 03 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6677-6Due: 03 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-6675-2Published: 02 May 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXV, 589
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Journalism, Social Media