The public interest in journalism seems greater today than ever. Keywords as ‘fake news’ or ‘clickbait’ indicate that we are dealing with a polarising political issue. Anyone who takes a closer look at today’s journalism knows we need to better understand the world in which we live. After all, journalists play a crucial role here, because traditionally they have a decisive role in how we perceive the world. But what has this role been like since the advent of the internet? What does it mean that there is both a new generation of readers as well as a new generation of journalists – called digital natives – born in the 1980s and raised with the internet in the 1990s? In the search for answers, this book outlines a multi-layered portrait of the internet generation, and above all shows us the far-reaching changes in the medium.
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Author
Magdalena Taube is editor-in-chief of the internet newspaper Berliner Gazette, assistant professor Digital Journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover and lecturer at the Leuphana University, Bard College and the Humboldt University, and co-editor of numerous anthologies, of which most recently ‘A Field Guide to the Snowden Files’ (2017).