The development of digital journalism, an important area of storytelling, has focused primarily on incorporating interactive multimedia components to traditional linear news stories. In this paper, we propose a new approach that places central focus on text, the core of journalism, based on insights from fictional interactive digital storytelling. Drawing upon the convention of interactive fict...

As journalists experiment with developing immersive journalism—first-person, interactive experiences of news events—guidelines are needed to help bridge a disconnect between the requirements of journalism and the capabilities of emerging technologies. Many journalists need to better understand the fundamental concepts of immersion and the capabilities and limitations of common immersive technol...

The internet – specifically its graphic interface, the world wide web – has had a major impact on all levels of (information) societies throughout the world. Specifically for journalism as it is practiced online, we can now identify the effect that this has had on the profession and its culture(s). This article defines four particular types of online journalism and discusses them in terms of ke...

Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on online news journalism, thereby neglecting the magnitude of new styles and genres that are currently emerging in online journalism. In this paper the findings of a longitudinal e...

1 Elliott School of Communication, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0031 2 Department of Communication, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29401 3 College of Journalism and Communication, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 4 School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 5 Mass Communication and Journalism, Fresno State, Fresno, C...

We describe the power and potential of data journalism, where news stories are reported and published with data and dynamic visualizations. We discuss the challenges facing data journalism today and how recent data management tools such as Google Fusion Tables have helped in the newsroom. We then describe some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order for data journalism to reach its...

On 28 November 1660, a group of 12 young men meandered out of a public astronomy lecture at Gresham College, London, and decided to form a collective. They called themselves the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and met on a regular basis to observe experiments and discuss topics relating to natural philosophy.1 Five years later they would publish the inaugural is...

This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well as face-to-face and online political discussion, contributed to political participation during the period leading up to the Iraq War. A Web-based survey of political dissenters (N=307) conducted at the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq provides the data used to examine the relationships among informational media use, o...