[Air-L] science/environmental reporting in the media

[Jack Harris]

Start with David Karpf's work. I think he has the best handle on this
transformation . You can access his thinking at his  (and others)
blog:  Shouting
Loudly <http://www.shoutingloudly.com/> and link to some of his earlier
work at DavidKarpf.com<http://davidkarpf.com/conference-papers-and-published-works/>


Karpf's 2012 article on *Social Science Research in Internet Time* is a
good overview of the struggle to define what Internet-based research (read
New Media) is and how to begin conceptualizing what this research is. I
require it of Masters-level students in a Current Issues in Media and
Advertising course I've taught.

In terms of understanding what new media (or more specifically social
network services) are the 2007 boyd & Ellison article is classic, though I
find it a bit problematic for understanding media and communication in the
broader web-enabled context that you are trying to understand.

And you can never (almost) go wrong with diffusion of innovations theory.

Good Luck! - jack


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:07 AM, T.Ashe <t.ashe at open.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm currently putting together a literature review on the changing media
> ecology of science and environmental journalism, with a view to the changes
> occasioned by the rise of new media, and I was wondering if anyone could
> help me with some advice.
>
> I think my major problem is that, without a background in media, I'm
> struggling even to really clarify what 'new media' means in this context.
> Even just pinning down the proliferation of technologies is a bit
> overwhelming and yet I can't really afford to spend more than a page or two
> on this. I don't think I have the vocabularity to capture how the internet
> allows traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, books, etc.) to be
> accessed from new devices, provided in different ways, etc. and I feel
> there must be ways of categorising the different dimensions of change, of
> which I'm not aware.
>
> I was wondering if anyone could recommend any literature reviews that
> succinctly clarify the issues around defining the technological and social
> rise of new media in a way that can give me the background info to situate
> my literature review? I know it's a massive topic, but I need something to
> give me a handle on it, which won't take up too much of the time I should
> be giving to the rest of the review.
>
> Any recommended recent work on journalism and new media would also be
> great.
>
> Any help much appreciated,
>
> Teresa
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