The electronic grapevine : rumor, reputation, and reporting in the new on-line environment / edited by Diane L. Borden, Kerric Harvey.

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

vi, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

The future of journalism in a distributed communication architecture / John E. Newhagen & Mark R. Levy -- Public opinion, expert opinion, and the illusion of consensus, gleaning points of view electronically / Susanna Hornig Priest -- The blurring of the line between advertising and journalism in on-line environment / Wendy S. Williams -- Niche-market culture, off and on line / Patricia Aufderheide -- Cyberspace, a consensual hallucination / Jason Primuth -- Going on line with the U.S. constitution, gender discussions in the cultural context of the First Amendment / Kerric Harvey -- Cyberlibel, time to flame the Times standard / Diane L. Borden -- The campus press, a practical approach to on-line newspapers / Bruce Henderson & Jan Fernback -- Technology and journalism in the electronic newsroom / L. Carol Christopher -- Journalists' use of on-line technology and on-line sources / Steven S. Ross -- Content analysis in an era of interactive news, assessing 21st century symbolic environments / William Evans -- Making sense of the new on-line environment in the context of traditional mass communications study / Kevin Kawamoto.

Includes bibliographic references and index