Watch This Space: The Future of Australian Journalism - Softcover

Deitz, Milissa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521144280 ISBN 13: 9780521144285

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

With traditional print media sinking under shrinking readerships, redundancies and declining advertising revenue, the imminent death of 'quality' journalism is being prophesied by academics, publishers and journalists. Are we losing a vital public sphere for interrogating those in power and creating local and national communities? Or is a moribund media status quo getting a long overdue shake up? Milissa Deitz argues that far from being the grave digger, the internet is in fact reinventing and reinvigorating 'citizen journalism'. More democratic through interactivity and participation, more immediately responsive to rapidly changing events and issues, we increasingly go online for our news. Far from undermining traditional journalism, a changing mediascape composed of dedicated online journals, blogs, social networking, twitter and mobile telephony, is returning journalism to its radical and democratic roots, recreating the feisty, informed public domain extinguished over the twentieth century by the concentration of media ownership in Australia.

About this title

Book Description:

The imminent death of 'quality' journalism is being prophesied by academics, publishers and journalists. Milissa Deitz argues that far from undermining traditional media, the internet is returning journalism to its radical and democratic roots, recreating the feisty, informed public domain extinguished by the concentration of media ownership over last century.

About the Author:

Dr Milissa Deitz is a journalist and author and currently lectures in Media at the University of Western Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521144280
• ISBN 13: 9780521144285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160