C W Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 226144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C W Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | C W |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3893-8411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 863 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Generic visuals, news production and professional authority in the news industry
This article examines the role that an emergent “object of journalism”, generic visuals, plays in professional journalistic practice. Generic visuals such as stock photos and simple data visualizations have standardized formats and appearances, perform particular design functions and circulate with increasing frequency in the news media. Because they are produced, distributed and consumed regularly and at speed in today’s news texts, it is import…
Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities
Generic visuals like stock photos and simple data visualizations circulate in the news with increasing frequency, and so do dominant narratives about them. Stock photos are clichéd and inauthentic, data visualizations represent facts, so the narratives go. Such narratives suggest that generic visuals have limited capacity to function as public images – that is, as visual media for social thought and civic spectatorship. Findings from our research…
Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies
Despite its crucial role in the epistemology of journalism, journalists’ reliance on common- sense has received little and unsystematic scholarly attention. This conceptual paper calls for placing common-sense at the center of the epistemology of news, while underpinning it with a more systematic approach that draws not only from journalism studies but also from philosophy and political science. The paper discusses the conditions appropriate for …
Digital histories of news in Europe: An introduction
Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and 'flatten-the-curve' line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people wearing face masks in everyday settings, choropleth maps and both bar and line charts. These 'generic visuals' circulate widely in the news media and, however unremarkable, play an important role in representing the crisis in particular ways. We argue that these ge…
All the News That's Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists
Practice, Interpretation, and Meaning in Today’s Digital Media Ecosystem
Historically, scholars of journalism have concerned themselves with meaning. It is ironic, then, that much of the most influential scholarship on digital media over the past two decades has concerned itself primarily with media practices. This line of thought was inaugurated by Couldry’s call to “decenter media research from the study of media texts or production structures and to redirect it onto the study of the open-ended range of practices.” …
Local Journalism in the United States
This chapter begins by defining ‘local journalism’ in the US context, and by situating that journalistic form within the universe of global journalistic production. It argues that there are aspects of the US political and economic system that render local news particularly important and particularly problematic. The chapter then goes on to review the research on local news in the digital era, making an effort to show the evolution of that researc…
Network Ethnography in Journalism Studies: A Mixed-Method Approach to Studying Media Ecologies
This article details a mixed-method technique called network ethnography, coined (though not invented) by Philip Howard in 2002, as it is applied to two cases documenting media ecologies in journalism studies. We map the news information flows – its influences, power dynamics, and obstacles – in Philadelphia, PA, and Madison, WI. The mix of locational sampling, formal network analysis, and triangulated news community ethnographies allow for multi…
Discipline and promote: Building infrastructure and managing algorithms in a “structured journalism” project by professional fact-checking groups
News organizations have adapted in various ways to a digital media environment dominated by algorithmic gatekeepers such as search engines and social networks. This article dissects a campaign to actively shape that environment led by professional fact-checking organizations. We trace the development of the Share the Facts “widget,” a device designed to give fact-checks greater purchase in algorithmically governed media networks by driving adopti…
Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects
This article attempts to uncover the intellectual, economic, and methodological structures that have led to the recent emergence of a particular notion of digital communication on social media platforms, one that emphasizes the power of (false) media messages to cause irrational political behavior and combines individual level understanding of media effects with a networked notion of society and information diffusion. After pointing out some of t…
A journalism of fear
What should journalism do, and for what reasons should it do it? The starting point of this article is that two distinct but converging factors have made this question increasingly hard to answer. On one hand, the seemingly perpetual crisis in newsroom capacity has made it hard to sustain a maximalist normative conception of what journalism should accomplish. On the other hand, the globalization of journalism studies research has problematized th…
Objectivity, Professionalism, and Truth Seeking
This chapter provides an overview of some of the issues faced by boundary drawing journalists and the scholars who study them. In research on fact-checking, scholars have discussed not only the manner by which fact-checkers may or may not actually change citizen’s opinions but also the more interesting manner by which fact-checkers are themselves enrolled in political debates about the nature of truth. The link between professionalism, objectivit…
Fake news and scandal
This chapter aims to understand and misunderstand fake news as a research concept. It addresses each of the critiques by outlining elements of our research on fake news production in the Philippines, which was selected insofar as it provides a non-European case of a phenomenon the discussion of which is usually confined to the industrialized West and which serves as a launching pad for engaging in larger meta-theoretical reflection. The chapter d…
Context, Social Science, and the Birth of Precision Journalism
This chapter and the next tell the story of the major “hinge moment” in the development of data journalism in America—the birth of “precision journalism” and the work of Phil Meyer. The chapter argues that shifting ideas of the purpose of journalism school, the growth of the availability of public datasets, increased journalistic professionalism, and the hard work of Meyer himself all contributed to the mainstreaming of the use of data in journal…
Journalism Interprets, Sociology Scientizes
This chapter examines the paradox that, even as journalism became more professional and concerned with social structure, it became increasingly distant from social science after the 1920s. The boundary work carried out by both journalism and sociology to distinguish themselves from each other is described through a variety of content analyses of leading professional journals. The chapter points to some of the reasons why journalism and sociology …
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt traces the way American journalists have made use of quantitative information in their news reporting from the early twentieth century to the present day. In so doing, it examines changing notions of journalistic objectivity and truth telling, particularly as these have evolved alongside social science disciplines such as political science and sociology. Apostles of Certainty uses m…
From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age
This article reconstructs the evolution of societal and journalistic meta-discourse about the participation of ordinary citizens in the news production process. We do so through a genealogy of what we call “participatory epistemology”, defined here as a form of journalistic knowledge in which professional expertise is modified through public interaction. It is our argument that the notion of “citizen participation in news process” has not simply …
Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies
In this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We argue that if scholarship is to move forward in a produ…
The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plumm…
Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship 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 jour…
Knowledge, Expertise, And Professional Practice in the Sociology of Michael Schudson
Although we often do not think of him this way, Michael Schudson can be seen as a moderate, critical-yet reasonable sociologist of knowledge. This identity reveals itself most clearly in his very first work, his doctoral dissertation, completed in 1976 and published in full in 1990. The second part of this essay argues that in his later career Schudson turned his gaze from questions of knowledge per se to questions of occupational expertise. I fr…
News Ecosystems
Epilogue
Both individually and as a whole, the chapters in this excellent volume have much to recommend them. Many embrace a level of personal introspection that is sadly rare in today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem. The reflexive nature of the first two chapters, penned by both a founding figure of the ethnographic newsroom research tradition (Schlesinger) and a more recent contributor to that same tradition (Ryfe), makes them particularly helpful for …
The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism
The era of digital journalism represents a shift in the forms of knowing – or epistemology – of journalism. This shift, I argue, has opened up new spaces for more emotional and personalized forms of expression in public discourse. In referring to digital journalism, I am interested in tracing the consequences of a particular set of developments that have occurred as a result of the “digital disruption” (Jones and Salter, 2011) engendered by the e…
Between creative and quantified audiences: Web metrics and changing patterns of newswork in local US newsrooms
How are transformations in newswork intersecting with changes in the monitoring of reader behavior and new technologies of audience measurement? How, in short, are journalistic ‘visions of the audience’ shifting in the online era, and how are they enabling particular editorial practices? This article explores a provocative tension between the now common rhetorical invocation of the news audience as a ‘productive and generative’ entity, and the si…
Towards a sociology of computational and algorithmic journalism
This article advances a sociological approach to computational journalism. By “computational journalism” the article refers to the increasingly ubiquitous forms of algorithmic, social scientific, and mathematical forms of newswork adopted by many 21st-century newsrooms and touted by many educational institutions as “the future of news.” By “sociological approach,” the article endorses a research model that brackets, at least temporarily, many of …
Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age
Over the past decade, the institutions and business models of American journalism have been utterly transformed. Through a combination of local newsroom ethnography, social-network analysis, and online archival research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Networking the News: The Struggle to Rebuild Local Journalism, 1997-2012, tries to place current shifts in news production in perspective. The book also breaks down the walls of the traditional newsr…
Data Journalism in the United States: Beyond the “usual suspects”
Understanding the phenomenon of data journalism requires an examination of this emerging practice not just within organizations themselves, but across them, at the inter-institutional level. Using a semi-structured interview approach, we begin to map the emerging computational journalistic field. We find considerable variety among data journalists in terms of their educational backgrounds, skills, tools and goals. However, many of them face simil…
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt traces the way American journalists have made use of quantitative information in their news reporting from the early twentieth century to the present day. In so doing, it examines changing notions of journalistic objectivity and truth telling, particularly as these have evolved alongside social science disciplines such as political science and sociology. Apostles of Certainty uses m…
The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism
The era of digital journalism represents a shift in the forms of knowing – or epistemology – of journalism. This shift, I argue, has opened up new spaces for more emotional and personalized forms of expression in public discourse. In referring to digital journalism, I am interested in tracing the consequences of a particular set of developments that have occurred as a result of the “digital disruption” (Jones and Salter, 2011) engendered by the e…
Objects of journalism and the news
This article provides an overview of what an “object-oriented” approach to journalism studies might look like, based on a survey of articles collected for this special issue on journalism and materiality. We argue that focusing on the objects of journalism, rather than limiting or trivial, can provide scholars with insights into the social, material, and cultural context that suffuses our technologically obsessed world. The article pushes back ag…
Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies
In this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We argue that if scholarship is to move forward in a produ…
Journalistic Networks and the Diffusion of Local News: The Brief, Happy News Life of the “Francisville Four
Through a combination of network ethnography and more traditional, qualitative newsroom analysis, this article undertakes a step-by-step analysis of the circulation of a particular set of news facts—those relating to the eviction and arrest of a group of homeowners in Philadelphia during a single week in June 2008, a time period in which the story of the arrests emerged, exploded, and then quickly faded away. The article discusses some of the lar…
What aggregators do: Towards a networked concept of journalistic expertise in the digital age
This article analyzes expertise in the digital age through an ethnography of an increasingly valorized form of newswork – ‘serious, old fashioned reporting’ – and its purported occupational opposite, news aggregation. The article begins with a content analysis of the 4 March 2010 Federal Communications Commission workshop in which journalists tried to draw a sharp boundary between reporting and aggregation. In the second section the article explo…
Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects
This article attempts to uncover the intellectual, economic, and methodological structures that have led to the recent emergence of a particular notion of digital communication on social media platforms, one that emphasizes the power of (false) media messages to cause irrational political behavior and combines individual level understanding of media effects with a networked notion of society and information diffusion. After pointing out some of t…
Black Boxes as Capacities for and Constraints on Action: Electoral Politics, Journalism, and Devices of Representation
Between the Unique and the Pattern: Historical tensions in our understanding of quantitative journalism
This article proposes that the underlying ideas of data journalism are not new, but rather can be traced back in history and align with larger questions about the role of quantification in journalistic practice. This article sketches out a theoretical frame (assemblage theory) in which quantitative journalism is best understood by examining the objects of evidence that journalism mobilizes on its behalf. The article illustrates this perspective b…
Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and 'flatten-the-curve' line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people wearing face masks in everyday settings, choropleth maps and both bar and line charts. These 'generic visuals' circulate widely in the news media and, however unremarkable, play an important role in representing the crisis in particular ways. We argue that these ge…
Discipline and promote: Building infrastructure and managing algorithms in a “structured journalism” project by professional fact-checking groups
News organizations have adapted in various ways to a digital media environment dominated by algorithmic gatekeepers such as search engines and social networks. This article dissects a campaign to actively shape that environment led by professional fact-checking organizations. We trace the development of the Share the Facts “widget,” a device designed to give fact-checks greater purchase in algorithmically governed media networks by driving adopti…
From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age
This article reconstructs the evolution of societal and journalistic meta-discourse about the participation of ordinary citizens in the news production process. We do so through a genealogy of what we call “participatory epistemology”, defined here as a form of journalistic knowledge in which professional expertise is modified through public interaction. It is our argument that the notion of “citizen participation in news process” has not simply …
The Sociology of the Professions and the Problem of Journalism Education
As part of this special issue on the occupations and the sociology of the professions, this article probes how the complexities of journalism's professional status play out in pedgagically in the classroom. The author argues that the current turmoil in journalism, and in journalism education, cannot be attributed to technology alone or economics alone but are a part of a deeper, older professional uncertainty amongst journalists. The author concl…
A journalism of fear
What should journalism do, and for what reasons should it do it? The starting point of this article is that two distinct but converging factors have made this question increasingly hard to answer. On one hand, the seemingly perpetual crisis in newsroom capacity has made it hard to sustain a maximalist normative conception of what journalism should accomplish. On the other hand, the globalization of journalism studies research has problematized th…
Knowledge, Expertise, And Professional Practice in the Sociology of Michael Schudson
Although we often do not think of him this way, Michael Schudson can be seen as a moderate, critical-yet reasonable sociologist of knowledge. This identity reveals itself most clearly in his very first work, his doctoral dissertation, completed in 1976 and published in full in 1990. The second part of this essay argues that in his later career Schudson turned his gaze from questions of knowledge per se to questions of occupational expertise. I fr…
Network Ethnography in Journalism Studies: A Mixed-Method Approach to Studying Media Ecologies
This article details a mixed-method technique called network ethnography, coined (though not invented) by Philip Howard in 2002, as it is applied to two cases documenting media ecologies in journalism studies. We map the news information flows – its influences, power dynamics, and obstacles – in Philadelphia, PA, and Madison, WI. The mix of locational sampling, formal network analysis, and triangulated news community ethnographies allow for multi…
Generic visuals in the news as public images: Activating emotions, experiences and identities
Generic visuals like stock photos and simple data visualizations circulate in the news with increasing frequency, and so do dominant narratives about them. Stock photos are clichéd and inauthentic, data visualizations represent facts, so the narratives go. Such narratives suggest that generic visuals have limited capacity to function as public images – that is, as visual media for social thought and civic spectatorship. Findings from our research…
The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plumm…
Social survey reportage: Context, narrative, and information visualization in early 20th century American journalism
This article takes a historical approach to the analysis of changes in the gathering and display of documents and data by journalists. It stands as an attempt to tease out the underlying epistemological changes implied by these transformations. The transition from the 19th to the 20th century would see the rise of the so-called survey movement, itself tied to the emergence of the progressive movement and concomitant with the growth of new techniq…
Up and Out: Journalism, Social Media, and Historical Sensibility
Much of the modern theorizing about journalism and communication attained its robustness due to a powerful convergence of distinct middle-range scholarly findings that emerged primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. In the present day, when we turn our analytical gaze to the relationship between journalism and social media, we thus need to strike a delicate balance between conducting new qualitative research, re-conceptualizing and re-interrogating the…
Distribution of Haemoglobin Level in a Group of School Children and its Relation to Height, Weight, and Other Variables
It is generally accepted that differences in the mean haemoglobin level in the two sexes become apparent after puberty, and this is thought to be due mainly to a gradual rise in the mean level in boys, which continues until about the age of 16 or 17 years (Sunderman, MacFate, MacFayden, Stevenson, and Copeland, 1953). However, in addition to age and (after puberty) to sex, many other factors are likely to be associated with haemoglobin level. The…
Is Information Good for Deliberation? Link-Posting in an Online Forum
Does information improve deliberation? Proponents of online deliberation argue that the availability of the Internet can solve two longstanding problems of citizen decisionmaking: that preexisting inequalities tend to be reproduced rather than minimized in deliberative forums and that citizen decisionmaking sacrifices the benefits of expertise. Because all deliberators online can access information during their discussion, deliberation should be …
Objectivity, Professionalism, and Truth Seeking in Journalism
The fi eld of journalism studies and the subfi eld of sociology that examines professionalization and professional systems-the sociology of the professions-have coexisted in a state of mutual indifference for decades. Few of the classic professional studies in the sociology of professions hazard even a guess as to journalism’s professional status, preferring for the most part to focus on the traditional professions of medicine and law (see, for e…
Journalistic Networks and the Diffusion of Local News: The Brief, Happy News Life of the “Francisville Four
Through a combination of network ethnography and more traditional, qualitative newsroom analysis, this article undertakes a step-by-step analysis of the circulation of a particular set of news facts—those relating to the eviction and arrest of a group of homeowners in Philadelphia during a single week in June 2008, a time period in which the story of the arrests emerged, exploded, and then quickly faded away. The article discusses some of the lar…
Between creative and quantified audiences: Web metrics and changing patterns of newswork in local US newsrooms
How are transformations in newswork intersecting with changes in the monitoring of reader behavior and new technologies of audience measurement? How, in short, are journalistic ‘visions of the audience’ shifting in the online era, and how are they enabling particular editorial practices? This article explores a provocative tension between the now common rhetorical invocation of the news audience as a ‘productive and generative’ entity, and the si…
The Social Media Reader
The first collection to address the collective transformation happening in response to the rise of social media With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transform…
Towards a sociology of computational and algorithmic journalism
This article advances a sociological approach to computational journalism. By “computational journalism” the article refers to the increasingly ubiquitous forms of algorithmic, social scientific, and mathematical forms of newswork adopted by many 21st-century newsrooms and touted by many educational institutions as “the future of news.” By “sociological approach,” the article endorses a research model that brackets, at least temporarily, many of …
Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age
Over the past decade, the institutions and business models of American journalism have been utterly transformed. Through a combination of local newsroom ethnography, social-network analysis, and online archival research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Networking the News: The Struggle to Rebuild Local Journalism, 1997-2012, tries to place current shifts in news production in perspective. The book also breaks down the walls of the traditional newsr…
What aggregators do: Towards a networked concept of journalistic expertise in the digital age
This article analyzes expertise in the digital age through an ethnography of an increasingly valorized form of newswork – ‘serious, old fashioned reporting’ – and its purported occupational opposite, news aggregation. The article begins with a content analysis of the 4 March 2010 Federal Communications Commission workshop in which journalists tried to draw a sharp boundary between reporting and aggregation. In the second section the article explo…
Black Boxes as Capacities for and Constraints on Action: Electoral Politics, Journalism, and Devices of Representation
The Sociology of the Professions and the Problem of Journalism Education
As part of this special issue on the occupations and the sociology of the professions, this article probes how the complexities of journalism's professional status play out in pedgagically in the classroom. The author argues that the current turmoil in journalism, and in journalism education, cannot be attributed to technology alone or economics alone but are a part of a deeper, older professional uncertainty amongst journalists. The author concl…
Data Journalism in the United States: Beyond the “usual suspects”
Understanding the phenomenon of data journalism requires an examination of this emerging practice not just within organizations themselves, but across them, at the inter-institutional level. Using a semi-structured interview approach, we begin to map the emerging computational journalistic field. We find considerable variety among data journalists in terms of their educational backgrounds, skills, tools and goals. However, many of them face simil…
Between the Unique and the Pattern: Historical tensions in our understanding of quantitative journalism
This article proposes that the underlying ideas of data journalism are not new, but rather can be traced back in history and align with larger questions about the role of quantification in journalistic practice. This article sketches out a theoretical frame (assemblage theory) in which quantitative journalism is best understood by examining the objects of evidence that journalism mobilizes on its behalf. The article illustrates this perspective b…
Objects of journalism and the news
This article provides an overview of what an “object-oriented” approach to journalism studies might look like, based on a survey of articles collected for this special issue on journalism and materiality. We argue that focusing on the objects of journalism, rather than limiting or trivial, can provide scholars with insights into the social, material, and cultural context that suffuses our technologically obsessed world. The article pushes back ag…
Drawing boundary lines between journalism and sociology, 1895–2000
This chapter maps the divisions and boundary markers that have driven the knowledge-building occupations of journalism and sociology apart for more than a century, but also trace the threads that still link George Vincent and Nate Silver&s;s very different professional worlds. It explores the processes of boundary work through which academic sociology and journalism were constructed as separate professions in the period between the 1920s and 1950…
How News Travels: A Comparative Study of Local Media Ecosystems in Leeds (UK) and Philadelphia (US)
Up and Out: Journalism, Social Media, and Historical Sensibility
Much of the modern theorizing about journalism and communication attained its robustness due to a powerful convergence of distinct middle-range scholarly findings that emerged primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. In the present day, when we turn our analytical gaze to the relationship between journalism and social media, we thus need to strike a delicate balance between conducting new qualitative research, re-conceptualizing and re-interrogating the…
News Ecosystems
Epilogue
Both individually and as a whole, the chapters in this excellent volume have much to recommend them. Many embrace a level of personal introspection that is sadly rare in today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem. The reflexive nature of the first two chapters, penned by both a founding figure of the ethnographic newsroom research tradition (Schlesinger) and a more recent contributor to that same tradition (Ryfe), makes them particularly helpful for …
The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism
The era of digital journalism represents a shift in the forms of knowing – or epistemology – of journalism. This shift, I argue, has opened up new spaces for more emotional and personalized forms of expression in public discourse. In referring to digital journalism, I am interested in tracing the consequences of a particular set of developments that have occurred as a result of the “digital disruption” (Jones and Salter, 2011) engendered by the e…
The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know
The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy
Social survey reportage: Context, narrative, and information visualization in early 20th century American journalism
This article takes a historical approach to the analysis of changes in the gathering and display of documents and data by journalists. It stands as an attempt to tease out the underlying epistemological changes implied by these transformations. The transition from the 19th to the 20th century would see the rise of the so-called survey movement, itself tied to the emergence of the progressive movement and concomitant with the growth of new techniq…
The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, plumm…
Remaking the News: Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship 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 jour…
Knowledge, Expertise, And Professional Practice in the Sociology of Michael Schudson
Although we often do not think of him this way, Michael Schudson can be seen as a moderate, critical-yet reasonable sociologist of knowledge. This identity reveals itself most clearly in his very first work, his doctoral dissertation, completed in 1976 and published in full in 1990. The second part of this essay argues that in his later career Schudson turned his gaze from questions of knowledge per se to questions of occupational expertise. I fr…
Sociology (34 works) · Media Studies and Communication (32 works) · Media studies (30 works) · Political science (26 works) · Journalism (25 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Social Media and Politics (16 works) · Social science (16 works)