This book offers a comprehensive investigation of the ways in which social media has affected
change to the constitution of mainstream journalism. The volume does this in a unique way - by
tracing the links between the different changes social media has brought to individual
journalism practice organisational processes and policies and institutional understandings of
journalism. The role of social media platforms in the changing professional landscape of
journalism is explored both in terms of the changes that social media platforms have impacted
on journalism but also the way in which journalistic use of social media has impacted on
particular uses of these platforms. Therefore Journalism and Social Media is not simply a
description of changed journalistic practices but endeavours to encapsulate a complex and
integrated techno-social relationship incorporating both the individual practices of
journalists as well as the larger organisational and institutional changes that have occurred
due to the increasing use of social media to investigate present and disseminate news.
