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Digital news production has gained increasing relevance in the last two decades. This book focuses on the affordances of contemporary, accelerated digital news production, proposing a new conception and connection between long-form journalism and archives. This approach is based on a theoretical framework of the contemporary digital experience which is defined as the «Digital Landscape».
Moreover, this book focuses on platforms and their practices as influential factors regarding long-form journalism and archival production, distribution and consumption. Assessing the shared features of these two entities - long-form journalism and archives - this book investigates how they can be re-imagined and re-used within the contemporary digital landscape.
Using a combination of multiple approaches, such as digital methods, text analysis as part of critical discourse analysis and semi-structured interviews, this book identifies common traits between longform journalism and archives. It aims to satisfy the need for novel approaches in the analysis, organization and output of digital news content, identifying novel connections and pathways which can be adopted in order to establish a fuller comprehension of contemporary digital news production.
List of contents
Contents: The Digital Landscape and Journalism - The Digital Landscape - The Media Industry and Archives in the Digital Landscape - Long- Form Journalism, Two Case Studies - «Snow Fall»: A Landmark in Long- Form Journalism - The Future of Long- Form Journalism: «An Unbelievable Story of Rape» - Archives in the Digital Landscape - Archives, the Long- Term Memories of the Digital Landscape - Present and Future of Long- Form Journalism and Archives - The Shared Trajectory of Long- Form Journalism and Archives - The Future of Long- Form Journalism and Archives: Digitisation, Datafication and Curation.
About the author
Marco Braghieri is a researcher working at the Department of Digital Humanities at King¿s College London as research assistant in Big Social Data. In 2019, he earned a PhD in Digital Humanities at King¿s College London and has been involved in a number of EUfunded research projects. Before completing his PhD and joining King¿s College London, he worked for years as a journalist and editor, developing sound experience and interest in digital journalism.
