Dear all,
I hope this message finds you well.
As some of you might remember, during the process of writing my first book I also wrote a review / programmatic essay on the scholarship of online news («The development and use of online newspapers: What research tells us and what we might want to know,» in Lievrouw and Livingstone’s The handbook of new media). I took advantage of the recent completion of my second book (News at work: Imitation in an age of information abundance, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press next year) to update, in collaboration with my PhD student Eugenia Mitchelstein, this panoramic of this nascent field of inquiry. In light of the growth and diversification of the relevant scholarship since the publication of the handbook piece back in 2002, this second iteration resulted not in one but in two papers, one focused on production dynamics (recently published in Journalism) and the other on consumption matters (in press in New Media & Society). I here attach electronic copies of both papers. Since your research and/or teaching addresses issues of online news, I thought these new papers could be of interest to you.
And stay tuned for the third iteration of this exercise in conjunction with the completion of my third book… in, say, 5-6 years!
All the best,
Pablo Boczkowski
Mitchelstein-Boczkowski JTPC
Mitchelstein-Boczkowski NMS
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