SOPA and the framing of contested facts
The recent attention to SOPA and PIPA has gotten me thinking about the role that contested facts have played in how mainstream journalism represents public debate. Case in point, the media has been...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News...
Zizi Papacharissi just published a new article in the Journal of Communication. Her article, authored with Maria de Fatima Oliveira, is titled Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News...
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Announcement: Two journal articles from Seth Lewis on the discursive work of...
Seth Lewis has just published two new articles of interest to Culture Digitally readers. The first, still in iFirst online form, appears in Information, Communication & Society, in a coming special...
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Big Data and journalism: a call for papers
Big Data, in the broadest sense, has become a rich site of research interest across the scholarly disciplines. I’m happy to share with the Culture Digitally community this call for papers for a special...
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Announcement: New Book by Brooke Erin Duffy on Gendered Labor in the Women’s...
The following post is excerpted from my recently published book Remake, Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age with permission from the University of Illinois Press. Drawing upon in-depth...
View ArticleConference: Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space
June 18-20, 2014 – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science) Organizers: José van Dijck & Thomas Poell Confirmed keynote speakers: Lance Bennett,...
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Fighting for Which Future? When Google Met Wikileaks
In the summer of 2011, in the midst of the Cablegate affair (the leaking of some 250,000 diplomatic cable transmission between the US State Department and American embassies by WikiLeaks), at a time of...
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Journalism in an era of big data: Cases, concepts, and critiques
I’m excited to announce the publication of a special issue of Digital Journalism that I guest-edited around the theme “Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques.” I was fortunate...
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Book Announcement and Excerpt: Social Media and the Transformation of News...
My book, Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting, has just been published with Routledge in the Research in Journalism series. I am delighted share an excerpt with Culture...
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Book Announcement and Excerpt: “Boundaries of Journalism”
Matt Carlson and Seth Lewis have just published Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation, an edited collection on the study of boundary work and journalism, and part of...
View ArticleDialogue: reflecting on Chapter 1 of Josh Braun’s, This Program is Brought To...
This month, Yale University Press publishes a new book, This Program is Brought to You By… : Distributing Television News Online, by Josh Braun, a co-founder and regular contributor to Culture...
View ArticleFirst look — Graham Meikle, Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility
Hi all. My book Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility is published in February 2016 by Routledge. I’m very happy to accept the invitation to share a first look at some of the book with...
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Facebook Trending: It’s made of people!! (but we should have already known that)
Gizmodo has released two important articles (1, 2) about the people who were hired to manage Facebook’s “Trending” list. The first reveals not only how Trending topics are selected and packaged on...
View Articleat Culture Digitally, we’re thinking about our scholarship in the harsh light...
Yesterday was a surprising, difficult day for a lot of us. For many of us based in the U.S., amidst whatever political feelings we were having, it spurred us to think hard about our own work and...
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Understanding Trump’s 100-Day Plan through a White Supremacist Worldview
Authors: Joan Donovan, Christopher Kelty, Pamela Lim, Won Kyung Oh, Ravneet Purewal, Antoine Rajkovic, and Michael Scheipe — Illustration by Amisha Gadani In September of 2015, the Participation Lab at...
View ArticlePutting 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,...
View ArticleWhen the Media Become the Opposition
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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