Abstract
The value of covering new books and literary culture in Australian newspapers has been widely accepted even if it has not been widely studied in journalism scholarship. The massive transformation of media in the Web 2.0 era has affected the Australian press in numerous ways, collapsing its well-established business model and driving publishers to offer print journalism online. The impact on newspaper journalists can be seen immediately in the large numbers that have been made redundant or have taken packages in recent years. More difficult to assess is the undoubted impact of such wholesale change on the cultural authority associated with print journalism and on Australian journalism culture itself. This conference paper focuses on one aspect of newspaper journalism in an effort to engage with these questions. It examines how the transformed media climate has affected Australian newspapers’ coverage of books and literary culture, by describing and analysing the expansion of copy sharing in the books pages of Fairfax Media’s three metropolitan daily newspapers, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Challenging Identities, Institutions and Communities: Refereed Proceedings of the TASA 2014 |
| Editors | Brad West |
| Place of Publication | Adelaide |
| Publisher | The University of Queensland Press |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780646927350 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, TASA 2014: Challenging Identities, Institutions and Communities - University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Duration: 24 Nov 2014 → 27 Nov 2014 https://tasa.org.au/tasa-conference/host-the-2014-tasa-conference-call-for-expressions-of-interest/ |
Conference
| Conference | The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, TASA 2014 |
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| Abbreviated title | TASA 2014 |
| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Adelaide |
| Period | 24/11/14 → 27/11/14 |
| Other | The conference theme– Challenging Identities, Institutions and Communities – is designed to encourage presentations on social, cultural and political change as it occurs locally, nationally and globally, as well as critical reflections on the power of social groupings in facilitating or resisting these directions |
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