Convergence and divergence between the models of understanding digital journalism in the Romanian news community
Convergence and divergence between the models of understanding digital journalism in the Romanian news community

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this research was to identify variations in the understanding of digital journalism in the national news community over the past decade of complex transformations that have marked the field of institutional media, some of them being attributed to the decline of the economic model that had ensured its survival and development as a global cultural economy, as well as a specialized news market. This study explored journalists' response to technological change by taking this response seriously as a cultural driver of redefining and reforming the information industry, in the face of the digital transformation of media organizations, institutions and contexts that are becoming increasingly smart-dependent. The most relevant result of current research is the role played by the spatialization of theoretical and practical knowledge between news and research communities, which curbs the inability to institutionalize and modernize journalism enhancing it against clichés of some digital and non-digital influencers and stakeholders who have pushed journalists from their position as legitimate gatekeepers of communication flows.

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