Mobile journalism: Systematic literature review

The era of mobile media has placed communications convergence at a new stage. The importance of studies about mobilecommunications has been growing increasingly over the last years. This growth is connected to the increase in the access tocontents through new devices. The last ten years have seen a process of acceleration in mobile technology innovations. The peakof this new scenario has been the interest of the research community in investigating the relationship between such innovationsand the spread of informative contents. This article analyses those studies that address the relation between mobile devices andcommunication and journalism. The main objective is to clarify the current state of these studies as well as to define theirsignificancewithin the current convergence scenario. In order to reach such objectives, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR)was conducted. The authors analysed 199 research articles published between January 2008 and May 2018 in the databaseWeb of Science. The findings suggest that the United States has the largest number of studies in relation to this topic. We canpinpoint the highest increase in scientific production about journalism and mobile communications in 2013. Besides, it exists adominance of those articles related with actants upon those ones about actors or audiences