By analyzing the daily work of online journalists this book investigates the production of
online news: how it differs from traditional media production and its consequences for the
character and quality of online news. It advocates revitalization of the ethnographic
methodologies of sociologists who entered newsrooms in the 1970s and 1980s while
simultaneously exploring new theoretical frameworks to better understand the evolution of
online journalism and how newsrooms deal with innovation and change. This collection fills a
gap in the field by offering ethnographic descriptions from sites of online news production in
many countries and provides insider perspectives on the real practices and values of new media
production documenting how these often differ from the claims of both producers and theorists.
