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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
Year 2010 was very glorious for Apples’s IPad e.g. over 2 million iPads were sold in
two months. Many newspapers and magazines have published their stories in IPadformat.
The research questions and method:
This research project investigates the role of IPad in Finnish magazines, with focus
on identifying how IPad is changing the journalistic procedure and what are reader’s
reactions to this new type of a journalistic product.
The research questions are:
1) How revolutionary is IPad journalism?
2) What is changing in journalistic procedures?
3) What kind of a reader experience is IPad journalism?
The data will be collected by means of thematic interview. The interviewees are 40
journalists, photographers and chief editor. Readers (100) opinions will be collected
with a survey. Data will be analysed using Grounded Theory and Content Analyses.
Online and print news media: Comparative analysis on content, forms and
modes of presentation
Doudaki, Vaia
Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology,
Limassol, Cyprus
The debate on whether the internet has been the hub for a new journalism or even for
the death of journalism as it has developed in the last three centuries is far from over.
On the other hand, what can hardly been debated is that the online journalist engages
in new practices regarding information gathering and management and that novel
modes of news delivery and presentation have appeared online, a reality that cannot
have left unaffected the final product, the content of news.
Previous research in the field has shown that online news writing produces short
texts, fewer genres (compared to print), minimum originality of content, scarce source
attribution and authorship. At the same time, according to various researchers, new
formats of news delivery and presentation emerge online and the amount of
information offered through personalized and customized tools rises.
Aim of the proposed research is to study whether there is diversity of content between
print and online media and whether distinct common modes of news writing and
presentation can be located between media of the same kind.
For the purpose of the study comparative content analysis will be performed in four
newspapers and their corresponding web sites in Greece and in Cyprus (the two
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