Dominic Boyer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451881
- eISBN:
- 9780801467356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451881.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter briefly examines the practices, institutions, and implications of newsmaking at a time that is equally imprinted by the hegemony of neoliberal politics and worldviews ...
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This introductory chapter briefly examines the practices, institutions, and implications of newsmaking at a time that is equally imprinted by the hegemony of neoliberal politics and worldviews brought about by the diverse institutionalization of digital communications technology. News journalists of today are engaged in the process of redefining their senses of agency, expertise, and authority given the new ecology of forces. The chapter suggests that digital news is an interlinked constellation of differently scaled nodes (organizations) that interact via variously sized and speeded channels to connect a galaxy of newsmakers and news users. It concludes with a discussion of the methods used in the book's study and an explanation of why Germany was chosen as the center of study.Less
This introductory chapter briefly examines the practices, institutions, and implications of newsmaking at a time that is equally imprinted by the hegemony of neoliberal politics and worldviews brought about by the diverse institutionalization of digital communications technology. News journalists of today are engaged in the process of redefining their senses of agency, expertise, and authority given the new ecology of forces. The chapter suggests that digital news is an interlinked constellation of differently scaled nodes (organizations) that interact via variously sized and speeded channels to connect a galaxy of newsmakers and news users. It concludes with a discussion of the methods used in the book's study and an explanation of why Germany was chosen as the center of study.
Aurora Wallace
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037344
- eISBN:
- 9780252094521
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037344.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter chronicles the post-World War II conditions of newsmaking in New York once Midtown had been established as the new nexus of the media capital. The industry suffered from consolidation, ...
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This chapter chronicles the post-World War II conditions of newsmaking in New York once Midtown had been established as the new nexus of the media capital. The industry suffered from consolidation, labor strife, and competition from the emerging broadcast media, all of which sent the print media into architectural retreat. Following the war newer modes of communication and suburbanization made the site of news production less important in the minds of readers, and surviving businesses remained in older, ill-suited buildings, overlooked by the public as sites of news consumption except during the many printing and delivery strikes of the era.Less
This chapter chronicles the post-World War II conditions of newsmaking in New York once Midtown had been established as the new nexus of the media capital. The industry suffered from consolidation, labor strife, and competition from the emerging broadcast media, all of which sent the print media into architectural retreat. Following the war newer modes of communication and suburbanization made the site of news production less important in the minds of readers, and surviving businesses remained in older, ill-suited buildings, overlooked by the public as sites of news consumption except during the many printing and delivery strikes of the era.
