The document discusses the social and technological transformations of digital journalism. Socially, digital journalism has enhanced democratization by allowing greater citizen participation and the rise of citizen journalism. It has changed the commercial distribution of news by threatening traditional models. Technologically, digital journalism has increased the speed and space of news distribution and given rise to mobile journalism through smartphones. Overall, digital journalism is transforming the industry through greater interactivity, new business models, and ubiquitous mobile access to information.

1. The social and technological
transformation in relation to
Digital Journalism
Demi (Zhang Xia 28757327)

2. overview
• Definition
• background
• Social transformations:
enhancing democratization and citizen journalism
changing news’ commercial distribution
• technological transformations:
increasing the space and speed of news
giving birth to mobile journalism
• conclusion

3. Definition
• Journalism
Adam (1993. p.11) ‘journalism is an invention or a form of expression used to
report and comment in the public media on the events and ideas of the here and
now.’
• Digital
digital – the Internet (Allan, 2006; Jones and Salter, 2012; Feton, 2009)

4. Background : digital press is coming
• Time used ‘welcome to cyberspace’ as the cover
of the ‘week’s news’ on 1 march 1995(Time,
1995).
• The Independent and Independent on Sunday
newspapers ceased print editions in March
2016, leaving only an online edition, BBC news
published on 12 February 2016
• the Guardian declared to provide its press only
through twitter (Ludovico, 2012).
Time,1995. Cyberspace. Available at:
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19950301,00.html Accessed on: 9th
January 2017

5. Enhancing democratization
•Increasing participation
BBC,2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38579126
Audience can write
comment or suggestions
for the editors or
journalists via E-mail, and
they can also click the
website links provided
within news pages to
explore more relative
information (Jones and
Salter, 2012).

6. Citizen journalism
Matheson, D., & Allan, S. (2009). Digital war reporting. Polity.pp.93
•Offer available news instantly
when blogs or weblogs come into the world, press is currently conveyed with text-
messaging, multi-media story-telling, email or blogging and so on (Feton, 2009).

7. changing news’ commercial distribution
BBC, (2016). Independent to cease as print edition Available at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35561145 Accessed on: 8th January 2017
The advent of digital press is a profound
threat to traditional journalism
(Ludovico, 2012).
• The end of paper

8. Timeliness (News of Tianjin explosion)
• Traditional news media
CCTV1(China Central Television 1)
reported this event at 6.00 pm 13
October (Huang, 2016). (the earliest
one in traditional news media)
• New media
Tencent News reported this
event at 0.33 am 13th
October
Tencent News, 2015 Available at: http://news.qq.com/a/20150813/001210.htm Accessed
on: 8th January 2017

9. Speed and space
Digital technology →medium space (websites, social networks, Apps,
blogs, mobile phones’ network )
• Feton (2009) : ‘more space equals more news’ (p.559)
• The expending space gives the opportunity to present news in more
critical and innovative ways (Gunter, 2003 cited in Feton, 2009).

10. Mobile journalism
Most important explosion videos in
reported news are provide by
ordinary people who witness this
explosion and use their mobile
phone record explosion videos.
BBC, (2015) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-33844084
Accessed on 10th January 2017

11. Internet-make news from desktop to
pocket
Readers can conveniently
consume news in anytime
and anywhere, just using
news Apps (Brainrd, 2010).
CNN NEWS App, 2017. Accessed on 10th
January 2017
BBC NEWS App,2017. Accessd on 10th January 2017

12. conclusion
• From traditional media environment to the internet, press have
experienced transitions as:
enhancing democratization and citizen journalism
changing news’ commercial distribution
increasing the space and speed of news
giving birth to mobile journalism

13. Reference
Adam, G. S(1993) Note Towards a Definition of Journalism: Understanding an Old Craft as an Art Form. St Petersburg, FL: The Poynter Institute
for Media Studies.
Allan, S. (2006). Online news: Journalism and the Internet. McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
BBC, (2015) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-33844084 Accessed on 10th January 2017
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BBC, (2016). Independent to cease as print edition Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35561145 Accessed on: 8th January 2017
BBC NEWS App,(2017). Accessd on 10th January 2017
Brainard,C. (2010) ‘A second chance’, Columbia Journalism Review, July/August. Available at:
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/a_second_chance.php? Accessed on:10th January 2017
CNN NEWS App, (2017). Accessed on 10th January 2017
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Jones, J. and Salter, L. (2012) Digital Journalism. London: SAGE
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Matheson, D., & Allan, S. (2009). Digital war reporting. Polity.pp.93
Tencent News, 2015 Available at: http://news.qq.com/a/20150813/001210.htm Accessed on: 8th January 2017
Time,(1995). Cyberspace. Available at :http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19950301,00.html Accessed on: 9th January 2017