Mike Ananny
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 181806 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mike Ananny |
| PRENOMES | Mike |
| SOBRENOME | Ananny |
| ASSINATURA | ANANNY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7160-212X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 304 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
How Media Unions Stabilize Technological Hype Tracing Organized Journalism’s Discursive Constructions of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Amidst ongoing challenges to journalism’s economic models, labor markets, and technological practices, a new pressure has recently appeared in many newsrooms: the power of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) computational models and off-the-shelf interfaces to synthetically create content that passes for news. Seeing the phenomenon through the lens of this special issue’s focus on “hype,” this paper uses discourse analysis to understand ho…
AI Governance as scale work
Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is difficult, in part, because AI systems never stand still in any one place. They are usually made by private companies, hidden within proprietary infrastructures, spanning jurisdictions, behaving in ways that are difficult to predict, and talked about in messy discourses of hype and panic. I suggest here that all this dynamism and uncertainty could be tackled by understanding AI and its governance as multi…
Data disaffection
Research on user experiences with datafication, the transformation of social life into data, identifies “digital resignation” and “privacy cynicism” as rational responses to feeling overwhelmed and disempowered. But how, exactly, do shared feelings and emotions mediate relationships between datafication and disengaged responses – both individually and institutionally? We develop a relational analysis of datafication, deploying an infrastructural …
Making Generative Artificial Intelligence a Public Problem. Seeing Publics and Sociotechnical Problem-Making in Three Scenes of AI Failure
Although Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has rapidly gained popular attention as something to worry about or be excited by, it is less clear if or how it is a public problem, and what ideals of publicness it illustrates, challenges, or invents. By developing the idea that GenAI is simultaneously an object and agent of public life, by describing how its failures are constructed and animated in three sociotechnical scenes, and by examini…
Making events
Anticipatory infrastructures assemble sensors that are ready to detect, networks primed to share data, scientists prepared to confirm events, and news organizations poised to tell stories. This article explains how public time is articulated through sensor-mediated communications by examining two anticipatory infrastructures. Each infrastructure uses similar earthquake data to detect, report on, and convene material publics around earthquakes in …
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer
To understand how journalism is made and what news is, it is helpful to center “the press” as an object of analysis and concern, a way to see the conditions under which news is made and made meaningful. For several years, many scholars and practitioners have focused on “the platform press” as a new way of understanding how journalism is made and what news is. In this essay I argue that that this “platform press” view enables three vital, generati…
Making Mistakes
From law and politics to commerce and art, algorithms are powerful sociotechnical forces. But what does it mean when algorithms “fail”? What do we learn about sociotechnical dynamics when algorithms are seen to have erred or made a mistake? Seeing algorithms as culture, I argue that algorithmic errors are constructs of intertwined computational, psychological, organizational, infrastructural, discursive, and normative forces. Through three storie…
Anticipatory news infrastructures
To understand news rhythms, scholars have primarily studied how the rituals and routines of news organizations align with the practices and expectations of audiences. The rhythms of today’s networked press, though, are set not only by journalists and consumers but also by largely invisible digital infrastructures: software, data, and technologies from outside newsrooms that are increasingly intertwined with journalistic work. Here, we argue that …
Pour un droit du public à entendre
Plutôt que d'abandonner ou d'écraser l'idée de la liberté de la presse - en la considérant comme naïve ou anachronique - mon but est de la faire revivre et de la redéployer pour plaider en faveur d'une valeur normative particulière : le droit du public à entendre . Je prétends que l'image dominante, historique et professionnalisée de la liberté de la presse - généralement définie comme toutes les libertés dont doivent bénéficier les journalistes …
Networked Press Freedom
This book offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. The book challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism discourse about news and technology, the book argues that pr…
Networked Press Freedom
Seeing without knowing
Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able to know how it works and govern it—a pattern that recurs in recent work about transparency and computational systems. But can “black boxes’ ever be opened, and if so, would that ever be sufficient? In this article, we critically interrogate the ideal of transparency, trac…
Networked News Time
What kind of news time does a public need? The production, circulation, and interpretation of news have always followed timelines and rhythms, but these have largely been seen as artifacts of press sociology, not central aspects of journalism’s public mission linked to the design and deployment of journalism infrastructure. Since different types of news time make possible different kinds of publics, any critique of the press’s material cultures o…
Toward an Ethics of Algorithms
Part of understanding the meaning and power of algorithms means asking what new demands they might make of ethical frameworks, and how they might be held accountable to ethical standards. I develop a definition of networked information algorithms (NIAs) as assemblages of institutionally situated code, practices, and norms with the power to create, sustain, and signify relationships among people and data through minimally observable, semiautonomou…
Creating proper distance through networked infrastructure
This chapter explores how journalistic witnessing means traversing boundaries between observing or reporting, avoiding or assuming risk, getting close or staying distant, live coverage or post hoc analysis. An extensive analysis of Glass in light of the entire literature on witnessing is beyond the scope of this chapter focuses on reading Glass for evidence of three aspects of witnessing: Proximity, Risk and Outcome. The chapter analyzes the scho…
From Noxious to Public? Tracing Ethical Dynamics of Social Media Platform Conversions
Sometimes, some social media marketplaces turn from noxious to public. Why do such conversions happen, what do they reveal about a platform's definition of 'public,' and when should they happen? Drawing on contemporary examples, this article examines some of the empirical and normative dimensions of platform conversions
Departing glances
Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular moment, but a process involving la…
Responsibilities of the state
There is general consensus that the press is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it functions as a profession, a business, and a social institution due, in part, to the proliferation and practices of online networked media. But there is still little understanding of exactly how this shift can and should relate to journalism’s role as a public–facing profession that produces and vets information using logics other than those offered by markets. …
Dolphins Are Just Gay Sharks”
The FOX television series Glee has been lauded for its progressive portrayals of gay characters and criticized for trafficking in stereotypes. We position Glee within a transmedia framework, using textual analysis of program storylines, ethnographic fieldwork, and messages about Glee circulated on the microblogging site Twitter, to examine fan responses to and uses of Glee. We find that young adults experience and deploy Glee in two ways. First, …
Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure
Understanding and evaluating systems for open collaboration depends, in part, on appreciating their normative and institutional contexts. In this article, I examine press-public collaboration by tracing how and why news organizations both distance themselves from and depend on networked actors outside the newsroom to achieve professional and organizational goals. I situate contemporary press-public networks within infrastructure scholarship, revi…
Seeing without knowing
Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able to know how it works and govern it—a pattern that recurs in recent work about transparency and computational systems. But can “black boxes’ ever be opened, and if so, would that ever be sufficient? In this article, we critically interrogate the ideal of transparency, trac…
Departing glances
Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular moment, but a process involving la…
Toward an Ethics of Algorithms
Part of understanding the meaning and power of algorithms means asking what new demands they might make of ethical frameworks, and how they might be held accountable to ethical standards. I develop a definition of networked information algorithms (NIAs) as assemblages of institutionally situated code, practices, and norms with the power to create, sustain, and signify relationships among people and data through minimally observable, semiautonomou…
Anticipatory news infrastructures
To understand news rhythms, scholars have primarily studied how the rituals and routines of news organizations align with the practices and expectations of audiences. The rhythms of today’s networked press, though, are set not only by journalists and consumers but also by largely invisible digital infrastructures: software, data, and technologies from outside newsrooms that are increasingly intertwined with journalistic work. Here, we argue that …
Networked News Time
What kind of news time does a public need? The production, circulation, and interpretation of news have always followed timelines and rhythms, but these have largely been seen as artifacts of press sociology, not central aspects of journalism’s public mission linked to the design and deployment of journalism infrastructure. Since different types of news time make possible different kinds of publics, any critique of the press’s material cultures o…
Dolphins Are Just Gay Sharks”
The FOX television series Glee has been lauded for its progressive portrayals of gay characters and criticized for trafficking in stereotypes. We position Glee within a transmedia framework, using textual analysis of program storylines, ethnographic fieldwork, and messages about Glee circulated on the microblogging site Twitter, to examine fan responses to and uses of Glee. We find that young adults experience and deploy Glee in two ways. First, …
Data disaffection
Research on user experiences with datafication, the transformation of social life into data, identifies “digital resignation” and “privacy cynicism” as rational responses to feeling overwhelmed and disempowered. But how, exactly, do shared feelings and emotions mediate relationships between datafication and disengaged responses – both individually and institutionally? We develop a relational analysis of datafication, deploying an infrastructural …
Responsibilities of the state
There is general consensus that the press is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it functions as a profession, a business, and a social institution due, in part, to the proliferation and practices of online networked media. But there is still little understanding of exactly how this shift can and should relate to journalism’s role as a public–facing profession that produces and vets information using logics other than those offered by markets. …
Dolphins Are Just Gay Sharks”
The FOX television series Glee has been lauded for its progressive portrayals of gay characters and criticized for trafficking in stereotypes. We position Glee within a transmedia framework, using textual analysis of program storylines, ethnographic fieldwork, and messages about Glee circulated on the microblogging site Twitter, to examine fan responses to and uses of Glee. We find that young adults experience and deploy Glee in two ways. First, …
Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure
Understanding and evaluating systems for open collaboration depends, in part, on appreciating their normative and institutional contexts. In this article, I examine press-public collaboration by tracing how and why news organizations both distance themselves from and depend on networked actors outside the newsroom to achieve professional and organizational goals. I situate contemporary press-public networks within infrastructure scholarship, revi…
Departing glances
Grindr is a popular location-based social networking application for smartphones, predominantly used by gay men. This study investigates why users leave Grindr. Drawing on interviews with 16 men who stopped using Grindr, this article reports on the varied definitions of leaving, focusing on what people report leaving, how they leave and what they say leaving means to them. We argue that leaving is not a singular moment, but a process involving la…
Creating proper distance through networked infrastructure
This chapter explores how journalistic witnessing means traversing boundaries between observing or reporting, avoiding or assuming risk, getting close or staying distant, live coverage or post hoc analysis. An extensive analysis of Glass in light of the entire literature on witnessing is beyond the scope of this chapter focuses on reading Glass for evidence of three aspects of witnessing: Proximity, Risk and Outcome. The chapter analyzes the scho…
From Noxious to Public? Tracing Ethical Dynamics of Social Media Platform Conversions
Sometimes, some social media marketplaces turn from noxious to public. Why do such conversions happen, what do they reveal about a platform's definition of 'public,' and when should they happen? Drawing on contemporary examples, this article examines some of the empirical and normative dimensions of platform conversions
Seeing without knowing
Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able to know how it works and govern it—a pattern that recurs in recent work about transparency and computational systems. But can “black boxes’ ever be opened, and if so, would that ever be sufficient? In this article, we critically interrogate the ideal of transparency, trac…
Networked News Time
What kind of news time does a public need? The production, circulation, and interpretation of news have always followed timelines and rhythms, but these have largely been seen as artifacts of press sociology, not central aspects of journalism’s public mission linked to the design and deployment of journalism infrastructure. Since different types of news time make possible different kinds of publics, any critique of the press’s material cultures o…
Toward an Ethics of Algorithms
Part of understanding the meaning and power of algorithms means asking what new demands they might make of ethical frameworks, and how they might be held accountable to ethical standards. I develop a definition of networked information algorithms (NIAs) as assemblages of institutionally situated code, practices, and norms with the power to create, sustain, and signify relationships among people and data through minimally observable, semiautonomou…
Networked Press Freedom
This book offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. The book challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism discourse about news and technology, the book argues that pr…
Networked Press Freedom
Anticipatory news infrastructures
To understand news rhythms, scholars have primarily studied how the rituals and routines of news organizations align with the practices and expectations of audiences. The rhythms of today’s networked press, though, are set not only by journalists and consumers but also by largely invisible digital infrastructures: software, data, and technologies from outside newsrooms that are increasingly intertwined with journalistic work. Here, we argue that …
Pour un droit du public à entendre
Plutôt que d'abandonner ou d'écraser l'idée de la liberté de la presse - en la considérant comme naïve ou anachronique - mon but est de la faire revivre et de la redéployer pour plaider en faveur d'une valeur normative particulière : le droit du public à entendre . Je prétends que l'image dominante, historique et professionnalisée de la liberté de la presse - généralement définie comme toutes les libertés dont doivent bénéficier les journalistes …
What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer
To understand how journalism is made and what news is, it is helpful to center “the press” as an object of analysis and concern, a way to see the conditions under which news is made and made meaningful. For several years, many scholars and practitioners have focused on “the platform press” as a new way of understanding how journalism is made and what news is. In this essay I argue that that this “platform press” view enables three vital, generati…
Making Mistakes
From law and politics to commerce and art, algorithms are powerful sociotechnical forces. But what does it mean when algorithms “fail”? What do we learn about sociotechnical dynamics when algorithms are seen to have erred or made a mistake? Seeing algorithms as culture, I argue that algorithmic errors are constructs of intertwined computational, psychological, organizational, infrastructural, discursive, and normative forces. Through three storie…
Making Generative Artificial Intelligence a Public Problem. Seeing Publics and Sociotechnical Problem-Making in Three Scenes of AI Failure
Although Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has rapidly gained popular attention as something to worry about or be excited by, it is less clear if or how it is a public problem, and what ideals of publicness it illustrates, challenges, or invents. By developing the idea that GenAI is simultaneously an object and agent of public life, by describing how its failures are constructed and animated in three sociotechnical scenes, and by examini…
Making events
Anticipatory infrastructures assemble sensors that are ready to detect, networks primed to share data, scientists prepared to confirm events, and news organizations poised to tell stories. This article explains how public time is articulated through sensor-mediated communications by examining two anticipatory infrastructures. Each infrastructure uses similar earthquake data to detect, report on, and convene material publics around earthquakes in …
How Media Unions Stabilize Technological Hype Tracing Organized Journalism’s Discursive Constructions of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Amidst ongoing challenges to journalism’s economic models, labor markets, and technological practices, a new pressure has recently appeared in many newsrooms: the power of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) computational models and off-the-shelf interfaces to synthetically create content that passes for news. Seeing the phenomenon through the lens of this special issue’s focus on “hype,” this paper uses discourse analysis to understand ho…
AI Governance as scale work
Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is difficult, in part, because AI systems never stand still in any one place. They are usually made by private companies, hidden within proprietary infrastructures, spanning jurisdictions, behaving in ways that are difficult to predict, and talked about in messy discourses of hype and panic. I suggest here that all this dynamism and uncertainty could be tackled by understanding AI and its governance as multi…
Data disaffection
Research on user experiences with datafication, the transformation of social life into data, identifies “digital resignation” and “privacy cynicism” as rational responses to feeling overwhelmed and disempowered. But how, exactly, do shared feelings and emotions mediate relationships between datafication and disengaged responses – both individually and institutionally? We develop a relational analysis of datafication, deploying an infrastructural …
Political science (17 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (6 obras) · Journalism (6 obras) · Media studies (6 obras)