Alfred Hermida
Alfred Hermida Ph.D. is an award-winning author, online news pioneer and digital media scholar. He is a full professor at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he focuses on digital journalism and social media. Recognized as one of Canada’s leading social media experts, Hermida is regularly featured in national and international news outlets. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2015 National Business Book Award and the 2011 UBC President’s Award for Public Education Through Media. Hermida was a BBC journalist for 16 years, including four as a correspondent in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Vancouver
B.C. V6T 1Z2
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Books by Alfred Hermida
Recent years have seen a dramatic change in the relationship between online media and the ‘audience’, and user–generated content is a common feature of news websites. Control over the contents of the media space, once held by traditional news outlets, today is shared by bloggers and other social media participants.
Such an environment requires a significant conceptual and practical shift for journalists, who face a rapid and radical decline in their power to oversee the flow of information. The ability to productively incorporate user contributions within traditional media spaces is becoming a vital skill.
This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel.
Papers by Alfred Hermida
Recent years have seen a dramatic change in the relationship between online media and the ‘audience’, and user–generated content is a common feature of news websites. Control over the contents of the media space, once held by traditional news outlets, today is shared by bloggers and other social media participants.
Such an environment requires a significant conceptual and practical shift for journalists, who face a rapid and radical decline in their power to oversee the flow of information. The ability to productively incorporate user contributions within traditional media spaces is becoming a vital skill.
This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel.
Ce livre, rédigé par une équipe internationale de scientifiques et d’acteurs de terrain, offre une synthèse inédite des nombreuses études qui abordent ce phénomène. Il fournit les clés essentielles qui permettent de comprendre les mutations rapides du journalisme en expliquant, d’une part, ce que sont les nouvelles pratiques professionnelles et en proposant, d’autre part, des méthodes d’analyse.
L’ouvrage décrit le quotidien des rédactions Internet, précise les compétences nécessaires pour pratiquer ce journalisme de l’immédiat et les dérives potentielles auxquelles les professionnels sont exposés.
Les étudiants et les chercheurs trouveront ici des données empiriques recueillies au cœur des rédactions, mais aussi de nombreuses pistes méthodologiques pour aborder leur objet d’étude : de la fabrication de l’information en ligne jusqu’aux produits fini présentés sur les sites Web, en passant par les études de réception.
Cet ouvrage s’adresse aux étudiants et enseignants en journalisme ainsi qu’aux professionnels de l’information.
"Alfred Hermida (Chapter 60) draws the volume to a close by scrutinising how social media – with the social messaging technology Twitter at the fore – are changing the ways in which news is gathered, disseminated and consumed. in tracing how Twitter has developed into ‘the default media network for real-time news,’ he discerns important implica- tions for the wider practice of journalism at a time when searching questions are being asked about its capacity to reinvent itself anew. A fitting note, then, to draw this Companion’s discussion to a close."
"The last chapter in this section explores the much debated role of social media. Specifically, Alfred Hermida in Chapter 17 explores how journalists and audiences are navigating social media and considers the implications for journalism norms and practices that have, until recently, been highly consistent. It aims to provide a framework to understand how social media may be impacting the role of the journalist, raising questions about the notion of what is journalism."
between science, society, and politics. Yet science journalism must continue to evolve, and must now look beyond the print model and its inherent limitations.