Digital Media

Essay Question: – “How have traditional media organisations and journalism practices adapted to the digital era?” – 2 or more case studies and/or examples need to be used. One case study could be of a media organisation that failed because it could not survive and adapt to digital changes, and others could be of ones that changed and adapted to the digital era. Sources that can be used: – Robert W. McChesney, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy (New York: The New Press, 2013), chapter 6. – Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke, Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), chapter 2. – Sylvain Parasie and Eric Dagiral, “Data-Driven Journalism and the Public Good: ‘Computer-Assisted-Reporters’ and ‘Programmer-Journalists’ in Chicago”, New Media & Society 15 no. 6 (2013): 853-871. – Adam Greenfield, Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life (London: Verso, 2017), chapter 2. – W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg, The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media And The Personalization Of Contentious Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), chapter 1.