The role of social media platforms in the changing professional landscape of journalism is explored, both in terms of the changes that social media platforms have impacted on journalism, but also the way in which journalistic use of social media has impacted on particular uses of these platforms.
Diana Bossio is Senior Lecturer and the program director of the Postgraduate Program in Media and Communications at Swinburne University, Australia.
Chapter one. Journalism and Social Media: An Introduction.- Chapter two. Social media and Journalism Practice.- Chapter three. Journalism and social media audiences.- Chapter four. Social media and the newsroom: new relationships, new policies, new practices.- Chapter five. Big data, algorithms and the metrics of social media news.- Chapter six. Shifting values, new norms: Social media and the changing profession of journalism.- Chapter seven. News in social media environments: Journalism in a ‘post-truth’ world.- Chapter eight. Where to from here for professional journalism?.