數(shù)字新聞為學(xué)術(shù)討論、分析和回應(yīng)數(shù)字技術(shù)的廣泛影響，以及經(jīng)濟(jì)、政治和文化發(fā)展，為新聞實(shí)踐和研究提供了一個(gè)重要的論壇。新聞業(yè)的根本性轉(zhuǎn)變正在改變新聞生產(chǎn)、內(nèi)容和接收的方方面面;在不到十年的時(shí)間里，“新媒體”以驚人的速度轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)椤皞鹘y(tǒng)媒體”。這些關(guān)鍵的變化挑戰(zhàn)了新聞實(shí)踐、學(xué)術(shù)和教育領(lǐng)域的傳統(tǒng)假設(shè)，使定義邊界變得不固定，甚至需要重新評(píng)估最基本的問(wèn)題，如“什么是新聞?”和“誰(shuí)是記者?”

Digital Journalism provides a critical forum for scholarly discussion, analysis and responses to the wide ranging implications of digital technologies, along with economic, political and cultural developments, for the practice and study of journalism. Radical shifts in journalism are changing every aspect of the production, content and reception of news; and at a dramatic pace which has transformed ‘new media’ into ‘legacy media’ in barely a decade. These crucial changes challenge traditional assumptions in journalism practice, scholarship and education, make definitional boundaries fluid and require reassessment of even the most fundamental questions such as "What is journalism?" and "Who is a journalist?"