Two years is a long time in the world of new media – a world of phubbing and selfies, of cyberbullying and neknomination, of bitcoins and Google Glass. Much has occurred since the first edition of this book, and the author draws upon developments in social networking, crowdsourcing, clicktivism, digital games and reality TV to bring it up to date.

This book brings together the work of British, American and Australian scholars and practitioners in a new edition of this popular collection. It examines the practices of reportage in an era of social networking and online news, an age of altered audience expectations in which the biggest scandal is the conduct of the tabloid press itself.

This book contends that the success of lies in its ability, over more than fifty years, to develop its senses of alienation, scientific rationalism and moral idealism. explores the ways in which the series’ protagonist addresses the nature of human mortality in his ambiguous relationships with time and death.