Print vs digital : the changing production of Singaporean women's magazines

Abstract

Digitalisation has prompted a myriad of changes in the journalism industry. This has affected different aspects of news work, particularly in newsroom production processes. Though such changes have received much scholarly attention, most studies have focused on newspapers and hard news journalism. Much less research has been done on the impact of digitalisation on magazines and lifestyle journalism. Boczkowski (2004Boczkowski ( , 2005 identified three production factors that are particularly relevant with respect to the adoption of digital technologies in newsrooms: organisational structures, work practices, and representations of users. Through in-depth interviews with 24 journalists from Female, Her World, Harper's Bazaar Singapore, L'Officiel Singapore, and Elle Singapore and the textual analysis of both the print issues and online websites of these magazines, I looked at how technological advances have