The new commodities of the new media landscape

Ridgway, A I

Abstract

The ‘traditional’ media industry — newspapers and magazines and the like — have had a difficult time lately thanks to increasing competition online. This book’s chapters consider ways the traditional media can reinvent themselves to secure their future. Two key themes that emerge from the chapters are the importance of building communities and the increasing role of credibility in today’s highly competitive media landscape. While this book does not focus on the science media, many of the conclusions are relevant to it, in fact some are cause for comfort for those involved with science journalism.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 6, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 17, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 23, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 4, 2017
• Journal: Journal of Science Communication
• Print ISSN: 1824-2049
• Publisher: Sissa Medialab
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 4
• Keywords: popularization of science and technology, science and media, science writing
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/910913
• Publisher URL: https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/15/04/JCOM_1504_2016_R01
• Related Public URLs: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/research/sciencecommunicationunit/scumembers/academicstaff/andyridgway.aspx
• Contract Date: Oct 4, 2017