Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet: A Short History of Disruptive Technologies, 1990-2010

Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet explores how the internet disrupted the newspaper industry in the 1990s and 2000s,from being an adjunct to an extension to a successor to the traditional print product. It describes experiments by large national newspaper "brands" and other first-adopters,and how social media shifted the news-media landscape in the mid-to-late 2000s.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 04 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The arrival of the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s brought about significant disruptions to the newspaper industry, which had been largely computerized but still largely unchanged. In his book, Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet, author Mark Graham provides an insightful account of these transformations. The book explores the role of the internet in disrupting news collection, editing, presentation, and dissemination, examining how it evolved from a helpful adjunct to an extension to, eventually, a successor to the traditional print product.

Graham offers a focused narrative of how the internet disrupted the newspaper industry, tracing the slow adoption of the internet by chains and large metro papers in the 1990s, followed by smaller daily and weekly newspapers in the early 2000s. He describes the changes that occurred as more "Web 2.0" technologies became prevalent and as social media shifted the news-media landscape in the mid-to-late 2000s, ultimately changing how most people in the West consumed and thought of "the news."

The book is intended for academics and researchers in the fields of journalism studies, history of technology, and media studies, particularly those interested in transitions from analog to digital technology and the initial adoption of the commercial internet. It offers valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by the newspaper industry during this period of technological change.

Weight: 264g
Dimension: 145 x 223 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367342975