Futures of Journalism: Technology-stimulated Evolution in the Audience-News Media Relationship [Paperback]

This book examines how technologies are changing, will change, or could change the relationship between audiences and news media. It highlights how novel technologies could have fundamental implications for the way that news media interact with wider society. The book comprises of four thematic parts. Firstly, it focuses on the impact of technological development on the news media business, exploring how news media uses new technologies to improve their sustainability. Secondly, it considers the ethical dilemmas that arise when audience-news media relationships are transformed by technological development. The third part of the book approaches the effects of novel technologies from the journalists viewpoint: how do new technologies intervene in the audience-news media relationship through journalistic work? Finally, the fourth part dissects the ways new technologies can impact audience-news media relationships through transforming audience agency, audience preferences and news medias understanding of them.

Introduction.-Section 1: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM.- Chapter 1. Maintaining online revenues for legacy media.- Chapter 2. Facing the pressure of the market.- Chapter 3. Monetizing attention through blockchain.- Chapter 4. Transmedia storytelling as part of alternative news media business models.- Section 2: ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES.- Chapter 5. Adapting the media self-regulation to the era of news automation.- Chapter 6. News professionals, audiences and communication rights in a global perspective.- Chapter 7. Ethics of newsrooms knowledge of the users in the era of datafication.- Chapter 8. Potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to rejuvenate public trust in journalism.- Chapter 9. Journalists and the people still known as the audience.- Section 3: ADAPTING JOURNALISTIC PRATICES TO NEW CONDITIONS.- Chapter 10. The changing role of gatekeeping in the age of computational jourló;