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This book showcases the vibrancy of the study of digital journalism in Latin America. In a research field marked by inequality, the studies included in this volume illustrate how research about and from the Gloabl South, where 86% of the global population lives, can increase the representativeness of the scholarly endeavor.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Re-Digitizing Television News: The Relationship between TV, Online Media and Audiences 3. The Personal Is the Political? What Do WhatsApp Users Share and How It Matters for News Knowledge, Polarization and Participation in Chile 4. Protecting News Companies and Their Readers: Exploring Social Media Policies in Latin American Newsrooms 5. Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America 6. The Mechanisms of "Incidental News Consumption": An Eye Tracking Study of News Interaction on Facebook 7. Between Attack and Resilience: The Ongoing Institutionalization of Independent Digital Journalism in Brazil
About the author
Eugenia Mitchelstein is Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Sciences Department the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Victoria, Argentina, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina (MESO). She has authored two books, one edited volume, and more than thirty journal articles.
Pablo J. Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of six books, four edited volumes, and more than sixty journal articles. His latest book (forthcoming) is
To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media and Platforms (with Mora Matassi).
Summary
This book showcases the vibrancy of the study of digital journalism in Latin America. In a research field marked by inequality, the studies included in this volume illustrate how research about and from the Gloabl South, where 86% of the global population lives, can increase the representativeness of the scholarly endeavor.
