This is an electronic reprint of the original article. This reprint may differ from the original in pagination and typographic detail. Author(s): O’Sullivan, John; Fortunati, Leopoldina; Taipale, Sakari; Barnhurst, Kevin Title: Innovators and innovated: Newspapers and the postdigital future beyond the “death of print” Year: 2017 Version: Please cite the original version: O’Sullivan, J., Fortunati, L., Taipale, S., & Barnhurst, K. (2017). Innovators and innovated: Newspapers and the postdigital future beyond the “death of print”. Information Society, 33(2), 86-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2017.1289488 All material supplied via JYX is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of the repository collections is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form. You must obtain permission for any other use. Electronic or print copies may not be offered, whether for sale or otherwise to anyone who is not an authorised user. 1 Innovators and Innovated: Newspapers and the Post-Digital Future Beyond the “Death of Print” John O’Sullivan, School of Communications, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland Leopoldina Fortunati, Department of Human Studies and Cultural Heritage, University of Udine, Italy Sakari Taipale, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland Kevin Barnhurst*, Department of Communication, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA. *Deceased (Professor Barnhurst passed away on June 2, 2016.) RUNNING HEAD: Innovators and Innovated Corresponding author: Prof. Leopoldina Fortunati, Department of Human Studies and Cultural Heritage, University of Udine, Vicolo Florio, 2/B 33100 Udine 2 Italy
[email protected] Abstract Along with other cultural organizations, newspapers, through waves of digital disruption, have become subject to a dominant narrative of crisis.