The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies offers a unique and authoritative collection of essays which report on, and address, the significant issues and focal debates shaping the innovative field of digital journalism studies.

Introduction: Introducing the Complexities of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies I The Digital Journalist: Making News 1. Law defining journalists: Who’s who in the age of digital media? 2. Studying role conceptions in the digital age: A critical appraisal 3. Who am I? Perceptions of Digital Journalists’ Professional Identity 4. The death of the author, the rise of the robo-journalist: Authorship, bylines and full disclosure in automated journalism 5.The Entrepreneurial Journalist II Digital Journalism Studies: Research Design 6. Content analysis of Twitter: Big data, big studies 7. Innovation in Content Analysis: Freezing the flow of liquid news 8. An Approach to Assessing the Robustness of Local News Provision 9. Reconstructing the Dynamics of the Digital News Ecosystem: A Case Study on News Diffusion Processes 10. Testing the Myth of Enclaves: A Discussion of Research Designs for Assessing Algorithmic Curation 11. Digital news users… and how to find them: Theoretical and methodological innovations in news use studies III The Political Economy of Digital Journalism 12. What If the Future Is Not All Digital?: Trends in U.S. Newspapers’ Multiplatform Readership 13. On digital distribution’s failure to solve newspapers’ existential crisis: Symptoms, causes, consequences and remedies 14. Precarious E-lancers: Freelance Journalists' Rights, Contracts, Labor Organizing, and Digital Resistance 15. What Can Nonprofit Journalists Actually Do for Democracy? 16. Digital Journalism and Regulation: Ownership and Control IV Developing Digital Journalism Practice 17. Defining and Mapping Data Journalism and Computational Journalism: A Review of Typologies and Themes 18. Algorithms are a reporter’s best new friend: News automation and the case for augmented journalism 19. Disclose, Decode and Demystify: An Empirical Guide to Algorithmic Transparency 20. Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists 21. Data Journalism as a Platform: Architecture, agents, protocols 22. Social media livestreaming V Digital Journalism Studies: Dialogues 23. Ethical approaches to computational journalism 24. Who owns the news? The "right to be forgotten" and journalists’ conflicting principles 25. Defamation in unbounded spaces: Journalism and social media 26. Hacks, Hackers and the Expansive Boundaries of Journalism 27. Journalistic freedom and the surveillance of journalists post-Snowden VI Minority Voices and Protest: Narratives of freedom and resistance 28. How and Why Pop Up News Ecologies Come into Being 29. The Movement and its mobile journalism: A phenomenology of Black Lives Matter journalist-activists 29. Nature as Knowledge: The Politics of Science, Open Data, and Environmental Media Platforms 30. Opting In and Opting Out of Media 31. Silencing the Female Voice: The Cyber Abuse of Women on the Internet VII Digital Limits: New debates and challenges for the future 32. Social Media and Journalistic Branding: Explication, Enactment, and Impact 33. Reconsidering the Intersection Between Digital Journalism and Games: Sketching a critical perspective 34. Native Advertising and the appropriation of journalistic clout 35. User Comments in Digital Journalism: Current Research and Future Directions 36. Theorizing Digital Journalism: The Limits of Linearity and the Rise of Relationships 37. Outsourcing censorship and surveillance: The privatization of governance as an information control strategy in the case of Turkey Epilogue: Situating journalism in the digital: A plea for studying news flows, users, and materiality

"In today's rapidly shifting digital media world, industry developments that seemed radical only a few years ago may be suddenly passé … and old thoughts and theories may be due for a rebirth. The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies tracks these rapid changes with clarity and insight."C.W. Anderson, Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK