Social News

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"Edward Hurcombe documents the rise of a journalism genre native to social platforms. Expertly woven, this narrative reveals the socio-cultural, technological, political and economic forces driving these innovative and unconventional news forms. Read this if you want to stay at the cutting edge of how journalism’s roles and values are being challenged – and, accordingly, how its boundaries are expanding."– Sue Robinson,Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA   “Based on interesting and relevant examples analysed through insightful theoretical lenses, Edward Hurcombe examines the concept of social news in this thoroughly researched and well-written book, packed with thought-provoking discussions that will deepen, expand, and challenge how we understand journalism’s ongoing evolution”.– Edson C. Tandoc Jr.,Associate Professor of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore This book is the first to define and describe ‘social news’, a new kind of journalism emerging in response to social media. Drawing on the author’s extensive research into news and social media platforms, Social News critically examines the rise of well-known outlets such as BuzzFeed and Mic in the US, and Junkee and Pedestrian in Australia. Hurcombe argues that these outlets became successful by strategically engaging with social media, producing sociable content personalised for millennials. Such outlets have been criticised for violating the rules of ‘quality’ journalism. However, this book shows how social news has provided a platform for marginalised voices and has been able to engage readers neglected by legacy news. While social media is frequently seen as a threat to the news industry, Social News shows that digital platforms have been driving new forms of journalism: ones that challenge our understanding of what journalism is, can be, and should be. Edward Hurcombe is a Research Associate in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Edward researches how news and journalistic practice are transforming in relation to the technologies, economies, and user cultures of social media platforms. His research has been published in leading journals such as Journalism, Digital Journalism, and New Media & Society.  
This book is the first to define and describe ‘social news’, a new kind of journalism emerging in response to social media. Drawing on the author’s extensive research into news and social media platforms, Social News critically examines the rise of well-known outlets such as BuzzFeed and Mic in the US, and Junkee and Pedestrian in Australia. Hurcombe argues that these outlets became successful by strategically engaging with social media, producing sociable content personalised for millennials. Such outlets have been criticised for violating the rules of ‘quality’ journalism. However, this book shows how social news has provided a platform for marginalised voices and has been able to engage readers neglected by legacy news. While social media is frequently seen as a threat to the news industry, Social News shows that digital platforms have been driving new forms of journalism: ones thatchallenge our understanding of what journalism is, can be, and should be.
Explores an innovative genre of news emerging as a response to social media and internet culture Explores the novel audience engagement strategies of social news outlets like BuzzFeed, UpWorthy, and Junkee Provides original critical frameworks for understanding new kinds of born-digital journalism

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"Dr. Edward Hurcombe documents the rise (and to some extent, fall) of a journalism genre native to social, digital platforms and, in doing so, shines a bright spotlight on what he calls "social news logics" that reflect the millennial way of storytelling. He successfully moves these "sociable, "millennial news" sites such as Buzzfeed, Mic, Junkee and other platforms from the dismissive "silly" categorizations into the realm of scholarly significance through the examination of "engagement," "sociability," and "personalized" logics in the memes, emojis, videos, listicles, hashtags and other vernacular of these digital sites. Expertly woven, this narrative reveals the socio-cultural, technological, political and economic forces culminating in these news forms directly in contradiction to traditional journalism. The resulting book reads as an evidence-based, historically situated, evolutionary story whose radical challenge to "objective" public information exchange is one we all need to be paying attention to. Truly a wonderful contribution! Read this if you want to stay at the cutting edge of how journalism, its roles, and its values are being challenged, and, as such, the boundaries of what IS journalism, expanding and changing."

— Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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