Putting the Folklore in Fake News
Amid all the rancor of the 2016 election, fake news emerged as a rare unifying force, one equally decried by the incoming and outgoing presidents, journalists and pundits across the political spectrum,...
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This was originally posted to an excellent new blog, “First 100 Days: Narratives of Normalization and Disruption” run by the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Harvard University, as part...
View ArticleCFP: Algorithms, Automation, and News (Munich, May 22-23, 2018)
Algorithms and automation increasingly are connected to many aspects of news production, distribution, and consumption. We invite original, unpublished papers to address such issues at an...
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On the Worlds of Journalism (from Remaking the News)
The following is an excerpt from an essay appearing in Pablo J. Boczkowski’s and C. W. Anderson’s new collected volume, “Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital...
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Helping Newsrooms Work toward Their Democratic and Business Objectives (from...
The following is an excerpt from an essay appearing in Pablo J. Boczkowski’s and C. W. Anderson’s new collected volume, “Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital...
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The Whitespace Press: Designing Meaningful Absences into Networked News (from...
The following is an excerpt from an essay appearing in Pablo J. Boczkowski’s and C. W. Anderson’s new collected volume, “Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital...
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A Manifesto of Failure for Digital Journalism (from Remaking the News)
The following is an excerpt from an essay appearing in Pablo J. Boczkowski’s and C. W. Anderson’s new collected volume, “Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital...
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The Visual Rhetoric of Data Part 1: Race, Class and Changes in Mortality Rates
In a recent publication from the Brookings Institute economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton presented data showing drastic changes in mortality rates among Americans of various ethnic, racial and...
View ArticleCFP: New Media & Society special issue — “Truth, facts, and fake: The...
I’m pleased to announce the following call for papers for a special issue of New Media & Society, as well as a related online workshop. Submission information is at the bottom of the call, and...
View Articleread an excerpt from Mike Ananny’s new book, Networked Press Freedom
In my new book Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear [MIT Press | Amazon] I critically examine what press freedom means today. I argue that, as news production,...
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