Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglis -- Part I. Theories: 2. Media convergence / Infotendencias Group; 3. Challenging values: the 'good' journalist online / John O' Sullivan; 4. Experiencing journalism: a new model for online newspapers / Sue Robinson; 5. The field of online journalism: a Bourdieusian analysis / Eugenia Siapera ad LIia-Paschalia Spyridou -- Part II. Politics: 6. Online journalism and civic life / João Carlos Correia; 7. De-democratising the news? new media and the structural practices of journalism / Natalie Fenton; 8. Crises, radical online journalism and the state / Lee Salter; 9. Forms of online journalism and politics / Eugenia Siapera -- Part III. Production: 10. Bridging the gap : towards a typology of cross-media news production processes / Ivar John Erdal; 11. Technology and the transformation of news work. are labor conditions in (online) journalism changing? / Steve Paulussen; 12. Journalism and cross media publishing : the case of Greece / Andreas Veglis; 13. The economics of online journalism / Richard Van Der Wurff -- Part IV. Practices: 14. Crowdsourcing investigative journalism: help me investigate-- a case study / Paul Bradshaw with Andy Brightwell; 15. Media accountability practices in online news media / David Domingo and Heikki Heikkilä; 16. Technology and journalism: conflict and convergence in production level / Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Iraklis Varlamis, and Stelios Kouloglou; 17. Social journalism: exploring how social media is shaping journalism / Alfred Hermida -- Part V. Contents: 18. Online news reporting of crisis events: investigating the role of citizen witnessing / Stuart Allan; 19. Contribution to an online journalism language: multimedia grammar / João Canavilhas; 20. The paradox of personalization: the social and reflexive turn of adaptive news / NeilTthurman and Steve Schifferes -- Part VI. Global Contexts: 21. Brazilian news blogs and mainstream news organizations: tensions, symbiosis or independency? / Olga Guedas Bailey and Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques; 22. A chance for diversity? Australian online journalism / Axel Bruns; 23. Online journalism in Germany / Thomas Hanitzsch and Thorsten Quandt; 24. The evolution, and challenges of online journalism in Nigeria / Farooq A. Kperogi; 25. Doing journalism online: how UK news organizations have adapted in the age of the internet / Kostas Saltzis; 26. J-blogging in China: development, significance and challenges / Jin Shang and Hao Zhang.

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