[Air-L] New Book: Histories of Digital Journalism

[Tamas Tofalvy]

Dear All,

Together with my co-editor Igor Vobič, we are happy to announce the
publication of the edited volume "Histories of Digital Journalism: The
Interplay of Technology, Society and Culture" (Routledge, 2025)

https://www.routledge.com/Histories-of-Digital-Journalism-The-Interplay-of-Technology-Society-and-Culture/Tofalvy-Vobic/p/book/9781032795072

About the book:

Building on the momentum of the recent “historical turn” in digital media
and Internet studies, this volume explores how digital journalism has
developed from a historical perspective. With contributions from
established and emerging scholars from Europe, Asia, South and North
America, the book investigates not only how established journalistic
systems transformed in the early days of digital but how the structural,
technological, and cultural changes induced by digitization have
reconfigured the trajectory of journalism.

The book argues in support of three main claims. The first is that emphasis
should be given to the plurality of histories instead of one single digital
journalism history, thereby acknowledging the complexities, interactions of
social relations, cultural traditions, power configurations, and
technological changes that have shaped journalism and digitization. The
second is the decentralization and decolonization of digital journalism
histories. The third refers to the need to highlight and demonstrate the
idea that the evolution of digital journalism should be viewed as the
co-construction of the social and technological realms.

With theoretical and methodological reflections on historicizing digital
journalism along with original case studies or comparative inquiries into
the phenomena over the decades-long digital revolution of journalism, this
volume will shape the nascent field of digital journalism history and start
a global critical exchange of various approaches to and aspects of
historicizing digital journalism. As such, it will interest scholars and
students of digital journalism, journalism history, digital media, Internet
studies, and technology studies.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Why historicize digital Journalism? Disentangling the
relationship between journalism, technology, and history
Tamas Tofalvy & Igor Vobič

PART 1: Theories and methods of digital journalism histories

Chapter 2: Conceptualizing change in digital journalism: Three key theories
in comparison
Thomas Schmidt

Chapter 3: "I tape therefore I am": Excavating digital journalism’s lieux
de memoire through oral history
Christopher Silver

Chapter 4: Bridging boundary work theory and the social construction of
technology from a historical perspective: On the construction of
socio-technical boundaries of digital journalism
Tamas Tofalvy

PART 2: Professionalism and meta-discourses of digital journalism

Chapter 5: The short history of naming journalism in the digital era
Laura Ahva

Chapter 6: Inquiry into the digital sublime: Interrogating the major
narratives concerning new technologies in journalism research between 1980
and 2013
Igor Vobič, Jernej Amon Prodnik & Boris Mance

Chapter 7: Digital disruption or union neutralization? A diachronic history
of tensions between the figures of the professional and the worker in the
history of a Canadian newspaper
Samuel Lamoureux

Chapter 8: “A whiff of panic”: How journalists in the UK and Germany
articulated their professional beliefs and identity in crisis times
Imke Henkel

Chapter 9: From bytes to bylines: A history of AI in journalism practices
Carl-Gustav Lindén & Laurence Dierickx

PART 3: Cultures of data, organizations, and journalism practices

Chapter 10: From audience clicks to time spent: Evolution of audience
analytics and metrics in Norwegian newsrooms
Ana Milojević

Chapter 11: No crisis but cooperation: Construction of online newspapers in
Nepal
Harsha Man Maharjan

Chapter 12: A singular public model: A history of online journalism through
DiarideBarcelona.com
Javier Díaz Noci

Chapter 13: Digital journalism in Brazil: A history of diversity in
products and research
Suzana Barbosa & Otávio Daros

Chapter 14: History of digital journalism in Egypt: Between
institutionalism and individualism
Nagwa Fahmy & Maha Abdul Majeed Attia

CODA

Chapter 15: Historiography and digital journalism
John Nerone

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Tamas Tofalvy, PhD, habil
Researcher, consultant | Digital media, journalism, popular music
Associate prof @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Dept. of
Sociology and Communications
Project lead @ Hungarian Online and Digital Media History (MODEM) project
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