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This volume showcases the vibrancy of the study of digital
journalism in Latin America. It includes an inquiry into
journalists' perceptions of media companies' policies regarding
social media use; a survey of investigative reporters; an
examination of the interaction between traditional broadcast
journalists and online news teams in two television stations in
Colombia; research on modes of news consumption on Facebook and
WhatsApp in Costa Rica and Chile; and a study of the
institutionalization of independent journalism in Brazil. The
methods employed by the contributors include surveys, in-depth
interviews, eye tracking, and participant observation. These texts
reveal differences across and within Latin American media and their
audiences. This underscores the importance of abandoning the
ethnocentric perspective of most journalism scholarship, which
tends to homogenize a supposedly exotic other. In a research field
marked by inequality, in which the vast majority of studies,
authors, and reviewers are from the Global North, where only 14% of
the global population lives, the studies included in this volume
illustrate how research about and from the other 86% can increase
the representativeness of the scholarly endeavor. It was originally
published as a special issue of the journal Digital Journalism.
Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for
millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in
what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems
for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as
concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural
anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has
renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental
effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online
data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention
on it long enough to make sense of it. In Abundance, Pablo J.
Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and
contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the
experience of living in a society that has more information
available to the public than ever before, focusing on the
interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this
abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and
survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role
of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the
availability of information and the actual consequences for
individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first
book-length account of information abundance in the Global South,
Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance
is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of
how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a
twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.
Before news organizations began putting their content online,
people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of
the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the
headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustomed to
instant access to a growing supply of constantly updated stories on
the Web. This change in the amount of news available as well as how
we consume it has been coupled with an unexpected development in
editorial labor: rival news organizations can now keep tabs on the
competition and imitate them, resulting in a decrease in the
diversity of the news. Peeking inside the newsrooms where
journalists create stories and the work settings where the public
reads them, Pablo J. Boczkowski reveals why journalists contribute
to the growing similarity of news--even though they dislike it--and
why consumers acquiesce to a media system they find increasingly
dissatisfying.
Comparing and contrasting two newspapers in Buenos Aires with
similar developments in the United States, "News at Work" offers an
enlightening perspective on living in a world with more information
but less news.
Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and
journalism in the digital age. The use of digital technology has
transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received.
Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that
technology is a central and indispensable part of their enterprise,
scholars of journalism have shifted their focus to the role of
technology. In Remaking the News, leading scholars chart the future
of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age. These
ongoing changes in journalism invite scholars to rethink how they
approach this dynamic field of inquiry. The contributors consider
theoretical and methodological issues; concepts from the social
science canon that can help make sense of journalism; the
occupational culture and practice of journalism; and major gaps in
current scholarship on the news: analyses of inequality, history,
and failure. Contributors Mike Ananny, C. W. Anderson, Rodney
Benson, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Michael X. Delli Carpini, Mark Deuze,
William H. Dutton, Matthew Hindman, Seth C. Lewis, Eugenia
Mitchelstein, W. Russell Neuman, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Zizi
Papacharissi, Victor Pickard, Mirjam Prenger, Sue Robinson, Michael
Schudson, Jane B. Singer, Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Karin
Wahl-Jorgensen, Rodrigo Zamith
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from
science and technology studies to examine media technologies as
complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship
around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that
these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of
social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in
distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication
and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives
originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS
scholars interested in information technologies have linked their
research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of
these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come
together to advance this view of media technologies as complex
sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the
relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such
topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The
contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion,
held together through the minute, unobserved work of many,
including efforts to keep these technologies alive. Contributors
Pablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella
Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie,
Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia
Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred
Turner
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news
and social media. Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of
the United States came as something of a surprise-to many analysts,
journalists, and voters. The New York Times's The Upshot gave
Hillary Clinton an 85 percent chance of winning the White House
even as the returns began to come in. What happened? And what role
did the news and social media play in the election? In Trump and
the Media, journalism and technology experts grapple with these
questions in a series of short, thought-provoking essays.
Considering the disruption of the media landscape, the disconnect
between many voters and the established news outlets, the emergence
of fake news and "alternative facts," and Trump's own use of social
media, these essays provide a window onto broader transformations
in the relationship between information and politics in the
twenty-first century. The contributors find historical roots to
current events in Cold War notions of "us" versus "them," trace the
genealogy of the assault on facts, and chart the collapse of
traditional news gatekeepers. They consider such topics as Trump's
tweets (diagnosed by one writer as "Twitterosis") and the constant
media exposure given to Trump during the campaign. They propose
photojournalists as visual fact checkers ("lessons of the
paparazzi") and debate whether Trump's administration is
authoritarian or just authoritarian-like. Finally, they consider
future strategies for the news and social media to improve the
quality of democratic life. Contributors Mike Ananny, Chris W.
Anderson, Rodney Benson, Pablo J. Boczkowski, danah boyd, Robyn
Caplan, Michael X. Delli Carpini, Josh Cowls, Susan J. Douglas,
Keith N. Hampton, Dave Karpf, Daniel Kreiss, Seth C. Lewis, Zoey
Lichtenheld, Andrew L. Mendelson, Gina Neff, Zizi Papacharissi,
Katy E. Pearce, Victor Pickard, Sue Robinson, Adrienne Russell,
Ralph Schroeder, Michael Schudson, Julia Sonnevend, Keren
Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Tina Tucker, Fred Turner, Nikki Usher, Karin
Wahl-Jorgensen, Silvio Waisbord, Barbie Zelizer
Before news organizations began putting their content online,
people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of
the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the
headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustomed to
instant access to a growing supply of constantly updated stories on
the Web. This change in the amount of news available as well as how
we consume it has been coupled with an unexpected development in
editorial labor: rival news organizations can now keep tabs on the
competition and imitate them, resulting in a decrease in the
diversity of the news. Peeking inside the newsrooms where
journalists create stories and the work settings where the public
reads them, Pablo J. Boczkowski reveals why journalists contribute
to the growing similarity of news--even though they dislike it--and
why consumers acquiesce to a media system they find increasingly
dissatisfying.
Comparing and contrasting two newspapers in Buenos Aires with
similar developments in the United States, "News at Work" offers an
enlightening perspective on living in a world with more information
but less news.
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