The Innovation Trap

Journalism, Media Disruption, and the Future of News
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-12796-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The Innovation Trap examines why three decades of sustained experimentation have left journalism’s underlying problems unresolved. Drawing on his extensive experience as a journalist and scholar, Alfred Hermida explores how the pursuit of innovation shapes journalism’s priorities and what news organisations overlook when they equate change with progress.

Historical analysis and case studies from North America, Europe, Latin America and other parts of the Global South trace these tensions from the rise of online news in the 1990s to the present. The book considers how professional culture and technological infrastructures shape the possibilities for change, and how understanding people’s information needs can help journalism rethink its relationship with the communities it seeks to serve.

The Innovation Trap offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, editors, news leaders and journalism entrepreneurs a framework for assessing what innovation achieves and whose needs it serves. It is particularly relevant to courses in journalism innovation, entrepreneurship and digital media.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hermida, Alfred

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The Wicked System: Why Journalism’s Problems Resist Easy Solutions, 2. The Innovation Compass: From Technology to Mission in Journalism Innovation, 3. The Disruption Diagnosis: What Disruptive Innovation Reveals About Journalism’s Vulnerabilities, 4. The Newsroom Reflex: Professional Culture, Resistance and Institutional Change, 5. The Infrastructure Shift: How the Web, Platforms and AI Reshape Journalism Innovation, 6. The Audience Question: From Attention to Public Need, 7. The Sustainability Paradox: Money, Dependency and Editorial Independence, 8. The Journalism Founder’s Dilemma: How News Entrepreneurs Renegotiate the Profession, 9. The Outsider Newsroom: Rebuilding Journalism from the Margins, 10. Beyond the Innovation Trap: Readiness and the Future of Journalism, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alfred Hermida is a professor in the School of Journalism, Writing and Media at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he has also served as director. A former BBC journalist, he co-founded The Conversation Canada in 2017. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association.