Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Words and Things
	Overview of the Volume
I Revisiting Theoretical and Methodological Debates
	1 Scholarship on Online Journalism: Roads Traveled and Pathways Ahead
		The Road Traveled So Far
		Challenges to Established Professional Dynamics
		Pathways Ahead
		Concluding Remarks
	2 From Heterogeneity to Differentiation: Searching for a Good Explanation in a New Descriptivist Era
		Descriptivism, Old and New
		Responding to New Descriptivism’s Unanswered Questions
		Conclusion
		Notes
	3 Rediscovering the News: Journalism Studies’ Three Blind Spots
		The Ongoing Journalism Crisis
		Three Blind Spots
		Challenging the Market Ontology in Journalism Discourse
		Toward a New Focus
	4 Newsroom Ethnography and Historical Context
		Traces of the Past in Digital News Spaces
		Newsroom Ethnographies and History: The 1970s and 1980s
		Genealogical Ethnography
		Genealogies of Journalistic Collaboration in Rebuilding the News
		Journalism, Documents, and Objects of Evidence
		Conclusion: Ethnography, Genealogy, History
		Note
	Commentary: Reflections on Scholarship in the Study of Online News
		New Challenges for a Maturing Field
		Conclusion: Deciding What’s Scholarship
II Rethinking Key Concepts
	5 Digital News as Forms of Knowledge: A New Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge
		News as a Form of Knowledge
		Digital News as Forms of Knowledge
		A New Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge?
		Notes
	6 On the Worlds of Journalism
		Worlds as a Framework
		Worlds of Technologically Oriented Journalism
		The Contributions of Worlds as a Framework
		Note
	7 The Whitespace Press: Designing Meaningful Absences into Networked News
		Meaningful Absence as Democratic Self-Governance
		Whitespace as Meaningful Absence Across Domains
		Historical Meanings of Absence in the Press
		Sources of Absence in the Networked Press
		Professional Norms
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Commentary: Remaking Events, Storytelling, and the News
		Events and Stories
		Mediality
		Affective News and the Polity
		Notes
III Interrogating Occupational Culture and Practice
	8 Helping Newsrooms Work toward Their Democratic and Business Objectives
		The Media and Its Problems
		The Depressing Quadrant: Harmful Business and Harmful Democratic Outcomes
		The Off-Diagonal Quadrants
		The Fourth Quadrant: Helpful Democratic and Business Outcomes
		News, Academia, and a Solution
		Conclusion
	9 Journalism Ethics and Digital Audience Data
		Journalism Ethics
		Three Archetypes
		Individual Journalists
		New Research
		Conclusion
	10 Reinventing Journalism as an Entrepreneurial Enterprise
		Normative Boundaries
		Economic Imperatives
		Journalistic Roles
	Commentary: Blurring Boundaries
IV Foregrounding Underexamined Themes
	11 Check Out This Blog: Researching Power and Privilege in Emergent Journalistic Authorities
		Journalistic Authority: An Institutional Approach
		Offline Hierarchies and Online Networks: Toward a Critical Framework
		Journalistic Authority: A Working Through
		Journalistic Authority: Research Frameworks
		Conclusions
		Notes
	12 A History of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism in Journalism
		A Historical Dimension: The Emergence of Current Affairs Television
		A Contemporary Dimension: Emergence of a Global Start-up Culture
		Discussion and Conclusion
	13 A Manifesto of Failure for Digital Journalism
		“Studying Up” and the Excitement of the New
		Taking Failure Seriously: Journalism Studies and Failed Practices and Institutions
		Approaches to Understanding Failure
		Conclusion: Failure is Inevitable
	Commentary: The Journalism Studies Tree
		Notes
	Postscript: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Journalism and Journalism Studies
		Who?
		What?
		When?
		Where?
		How and Why?
		Concluding Thoughts: What If?
		Note
Contributors
References
Index
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