Convergence and innovation: the conceptual and methodological basis of technological evolution and cultural complexity in journalism

Abstract

This chapter seeks to contribute to the contextualization of current trends, based on a review of the resignification of concepts such as convergence and innovation in the field of journalism, concepts that are essential when it comes to understanding technological development and the increasing cultural complexity of Journalism. In fact, journalism today presents a hybrid scenario of old and new media, one that is beginning to be described as “hi-tech journalism”, in which professionals strive to find stable employment and maintain basic principles of news journalism, such as rigor, truthfulness and quality. On the basis of this general and complete approach, the chapter is completed with an analysis of the main empirical studies on newsrooms convergence as one of the main media innovation development factors.