Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age (Inside Technology)

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 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Words and Things Overview of the Volume I Revisiting Theoretical and Methodological Debates 1 Scholarship on Online Journalism: Roads Traveled and Pathways Ahead The Road Traveled So Far Challenges to Established Professional Dynamics Pathways Ahead Concluding Remarks 2 From Heterogeneity to Differentiation: Searching for a Good Explanation in a New Descriptivist Era Descriptivism, Old and New Responding to New Descriptivism’s Unanswered Questions Conclusion Notes 3 Rediscovering the News: Journalism Studies’ Three Blind Spots The Ongoing Journalism Crisis Three Blind Spots Challenging the Market Ontology in Journalism Discourse Toward a New Focus 4 Newsroom Ethnography and Historical Context Traces of the Past in Digital News Spaces Newsroom Ethnographies and History: The 1970s and 1980s Genealogical Ethnography Genealogies of Journalistic Collaboration in Rebuilding the News Journalism, Documents, and Objects of Evidence Conclusion: Ethnography, Genealogy, History Note Commentary: Reflections on Scholarship in the Study of Online News New Challenges for a Maturing Field Conclusion: Deciding What’s Scholarship II Rethinking Key Concepts 5 Digital News as Forms of Knowledge: A New Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge News as a Form of Knowledge Digital News as Forms of Knowledge A New Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge? Notes 6 On the Worlds of Journalism Worlds as a Framework Worlds of Technologically Oriented Journalism The Contributions of Worlds as a Framework Note 7 The Whitespace Press: Designing Meaningful Absences into Networked News Meaningful Absence as Democratic Self-Governance Whitespace as Meaningful Absence Across Domains Historical Meanings of Absence in the Press Sources of Absence in the Networked Press Professional Norms Conclusion Notes Commentary: Remaking Events, Storytelling, and the News Events and Stories Mediality Affective News and the Polity Notes III Interrogating Occupational Culture and Practice 8 Helping Newsrooms Work toward Their Democratic and Business Objectives The Media and Its Problems The Depressing Quadrant: Harmful Business and Harmful Democratic Outcomes The Off-Diagonal Quadrants The Fourth Quadrant: Helpful Democratic and Business Outcomes News, Academia, and a Solution Conclusion 9 Journalism Ethics and Digital Audience Data Journalism Ethics Three Archetypes Individual Journalists New Research Conclusion 10 Reinventing Journalism as an Entrepreneurial Enterprise Normative Boundaries Economic Imperatives Journalistic Roles Commentary: Blurring Boundaries IV Foregrounding Underexamined Themes 11 Check Out This Blog: Researching Power and Privilege in Emergent Journalistic Authorities Journalistic Authority: An Institutional Approach Offline Hierarchies and Online Networks: Toward a Critical Framework Journalistic Authority: A Working Through Journalistic Authority: Research Frameworks Conclusions Notes 12 A History of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism in Journalism A Historical Dimension: The Emergence of Current Affairs Television A Contemporary Dimension: Emergence of a Global Start-up Culture Discussion and Conclusion 13 A Manifesto of Failure for Digital Journalism “Studying Up” and the Excitement of the New Taking Failure Seriously: Journalism Studies and Failed Practices and Institutions Approaches to Understanding Failure Conclusion: Failure is Inevitable Commentary: The Journalism Studies Tree Notes Postscript: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Journalism and Journalism Studies Who? What? When? Where? How and Why? Concluding Thoughts: What If? Note Contributors References Index Inside Technology