Start with David Karpf's work. I think he has the best handle on this transformation . You can access his thinking at his (and others) blog: Shouting Loudly <http://www.shoutingloudly.com/> and link to some of his earlier work at DavidKarpf.com<http://davidkarpf.com/conference-papers-and-published-works/> Karpf's 2012 article on *Social Science Research in Internet Time* is a good overview of the struggle to define what Internet-based research (read New Media) is and how to begin conceptualizing what this research is. I require it of Masters-level students in a Current Issues in Media and Advertising course I've taught. In terms of understanding what new media (or more specifically social network services) are the 2007 boyd & Ellison article is classic, though I find it a bit problematic for understanding media and communication in the broader web-enabled context that you are trying to understand. And you can never (almost) go wrong with diffusion of innovations theory. Good Luck! - jack On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:07 AM, T.Ashe <t.ashe@open.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear all,
I'm currently putting together a literature review on the changing media ecology of science and environmental journalism, with a view to the changes occasioned by the rise of new media, and I was wondering if anyone could help me with some advice.
I think my major problem is that, without a background in media, I'm struggling even to really clarify what 'new media' means in this context. Even just pinning down the proliferation of technologies is a bit overwhelming and yet I can't really afford to spend more than a page or two on this. I don't think I have the vocabularity to capture how the internet allows traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, books, etc.) to be accessed from new devices, provided in different ways, etc. and I feel there must be ways of categorising the different dimensions of change, of which I'm not aware.
I was wondering if anyone could recommend any literature reviews that succinctly clarify the issues around defining the technological and social rise of new media in a way that can give me the background info to situate my literature review? I know it's a massive topic, but I need something to give me a handle on it, which won't take up too much of the time I should be giving to the rest of the review.
Any recommended recent work on journalism and new media would also be great.
Any help much appreciated,
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