Will Mari
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 269849 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Will Mari |
| PRENOMES | Will |
| SOBRENOME | Mari |
| ASSINATURA | MARI W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6730-8427 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Web Archives and Historicizing Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine
“Dying in harness
By looking through the lens of media history at how journalists in an earlier era reflected on trauma in their own newsrooms, this study seeks to add more holistic perspectives on how trauma has been and is discussed by news workers, as well as given meaning and contemplated. This study interrogates the role organizational culture has played in shaping reflections and depictions on trauma, and how a better understanding of this internal work cult…
An early Web history of vaccine skeptical digital rhetorics
Vaccine hesitancy is a public health threat stoked by vaccine skeptical rhetorics that circulate via the Web. While there is a body of work that studies the digital rhetorical tactics of vaccine skeptics, most of this work focuses on the Web rhetorics of the “Web 2.0” era, leaving the “Web 1.0” era relatively understudied and, in turn, foreclosing opportunities to look back before moving forward in the current moment. In efforts to yield glimpses…
Conceiving Computer-Assisted Reporting
This study examines how US-focused instructional textbooks presented newsgathering approaches associated with the Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) movement from the late 20th to the early 21st centuries. As newsrooms began a decades-long shift toward digitalization and data-driven, social-scientific reporting, industry thought leaders used educational texts to introduce and enculturate rank-and-file journalists into increasingly technologized pr…
Ahmed Topkev, A Democratic Approach to Religion News
Gendering of the “ideal user” in 1990s-era internet magazines
This project responds to calls by scholars to interrogate how gender was depicted on the early commercial internet. More broadly, it examines how the idea of “users” was and is constructed in different times and places. Specifically, it examines images—advertisements, photos, and other illustrations—and how they depicted gender norms and user behaviors on the internet—in their “idealized” forms. Our study looks at how magazines, such as Internet …
(Electronic) Mailing the Editor
In the mid-to-late 1990s, readers reacted to journalistic accounts of the world around them, from sending emails to posting to message boards on newspaper sites. Some of these practices, especially positive suggestions of sources and conversations with reporters, represent an earlier time’s web-optimism, now perhaps lost. This article will explore how design practices, including integrated forums, tabs, indexes and other early site design convent…
A Shot in the Arm
In a meditation on the future of journalism history, this essay focuses on some positive trends, including the growth of media history academic groups and the field’s broader expansion in terms of topics and connections, as well as some challenges with an eye toward hope. It also examines exemplars—in the form of journals, organizations, and scholars—who are showing a promising way forward during an uncertain time in journalism. This contemplatio…
Networks in motion
In this article, we turn back to the 1918 influenza pandemic to throw light on the alliances of information communication technologies and technologies of mobility (such as the car) during the pandemic. We examine newspaper articles, technical publications, and other historical texts to demonstrate that, despite the fact that mobile technologies-such as cellular phones-did not exist during the 1918 pandemic, the telephone and mobility technology …
Let Us Fly Our Drones
This study uses diffusion of innovations theory to examine the growing popularity of drone journalism across U.S. colleges. We argue that collegiate-level developments in drone journalism represent a shift in drone technology’s diffusion across society from an instrument limited to a few select groups to a technology that is now used by future professionals with the power to shape the practice of journalism. Through a content analysis of college …
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet is an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s in the recently computerized, but still largely unchanged, newspaper industry. Providing a focused narrative of how the internet disrupted news collection, editing, presentation and dissemination, the book examines the role of the internet from helpful adjunct to extension to, eventually, successor to…
Early Development of News Sites in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1990s
The many close, trans-Atlantic connections between the United States and Britain were the setting and inspiration for much of how these nations’ respective media systems produce and consume news online today. Publishers, software engineers and journalists in both nations shared worries about the impact of the internet on the newspaper industry, and the early migration—or, in many cases, the uneven migration—to online news sites during the 1990s. …
Staying Cool
Along with the telephone and the car, the typewriter and other more “mundane” or otherwise unheralded background media technologies, air conditioning (AC) helped to develop modern American newspaper buildings and their newsrooms into the institutions they are today. AC was an invisible tool that was nonetheless felt—literally—when it was there and noted when it was not, as the century wore on and journalism developed into a more white-collar occu…
I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive
As journalists dealt with a nonstop news cycle in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their newspapers faced a financial crisis as advertising revenue sharply declined during economic shutdowns. Unable to rely on their centuries-old, advertising-centric business model, U.S. community newspapers had to turn to other means to survive. This study features oral histories with 24 journalists and state newspaper association directors in …
If Then
Reviewed by: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Will Mari (bio) If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future By Jill Lepore. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Pp. 432. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future By Jill Lepore. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Pp. 432. Other scholars, such as Charlton McIlwain, have explored the history of the mysterious and doom…
A review essay
A short history of pandemic coverage on the Internet
This short history of previous online pandemic news coverage (of SARS, H1N1, MERS, c. 2003–2012) draws on Pew Research Center data and then-contemporary primary sources, including meta-journalistic analysis, to explore continuities and divergences to the present and our ongoing coranavirus pandemic. Numerous trends, including a cycle of neglect and panic, emerged on the Internet in the 2000s, and have become exacerbated over time. Other, more pos…
The mainframe era
Rise of the internet and the “full” computerization of the newsroom
This chapter covers the continued use of pre-internet networks, and wire services and bulletin boards deployed for user (i.e., reader) interaction. It briefly reviews the integration of decentralized computer networks in newsrooms, with a mix of content-management systems and PCs, and the increasing use of pagers/cellphones for reporting/news-gathering, including the shift from “portable” to mobile conceptualizations for these technologies. Early…
The microprocessor era
This chapter examines the microprocessor era, c. 1982–1992, and the rise of “smart” terminals, “microcomputers” and off-the-shelf hardware/software, along with the increasing use of computers in smaller news organizations (including newspapers and radio/TV stations). The use of “personal computers” in newsrooms (particularly smaller newsrooms) and operating systems such as MS-DOS, despite initial suspicion and cost, are reviewed.
Conclusion
The conclusion looks at what happened in the mid-1990s and what came after, with the foreshadowing of the interactive Web 2.0 and app-driven, mobile and generally more wired newsrooms of the twenty-first century, and reviews future research directions.
The minicomputer era
This chapter focuses on the “minicomputer” era, from c. 1970 through 1982, as the PDP-8 and VDTs, CRTs and other early “dumb terminals” and small local storage capabilities were beginning to transform larger newsrooms. This chapter also reviews initial news-worker experiences with computers for editing and publication, and covers the use of scanners and optical-scan recognition technology, and how these did not, in fact, become dominant.
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s. It focuses on how word processing and a number of related affordances, including mobile-reporting tools, impacted the daily work routines of American news workers. The narrative opens with the development of mainframes and their attendant use as databases in large, daily newspapers,…
Unionization in the American Newsroom, 1930 to 1960
This study of the material benefits brought to American news workers from the 1930s through the 1960s builds on previous work by media labor-studies scholars such as Bonnie Brennen, Daniel Leab, Phillip Glende and Sam Kuczun, among others, who have examined the history of the American Newspaper Guild (ANG) in great detail. Their work has focused on legal and policy developments under the Roosevelt administration and in U.S. labor law. My study, a…
Technology in the Newsroom
The telephone and other news-gathering technologies had been present in US newsrooms since the late 1800s. But increasing access to them by the mid-1930s meant more agency and autonomy for news workers, freed from having to either share phones with colleagues in the newsroom or fight for access to phones outside of it (at least not as much). Granted, not every newsroom was awash in phones. Increasingly, however, after 1920 reporters and their pho…
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s. It focuses on how word processing and a number of related affordances, including mobile-reporting tools, impacted the daily work routines of American news workers. The narrative opens with the development of mainframes and their attendant use as databases in large, daily newspapers,…
I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive
As journalists dealt with a nonstop news cycle in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their newspapers faced a financial crisis as advertising revenue sharply declined during economic shutdowns. Unable to rely on their centuries-old, advertising-centric business model, U.S. community newspapers had to turn to other means to survive. This study features oral histories with 24 journalists and state newspaper association directors in …
Technology in the Newsroom
The telephone and other news-gathering technologies had been present in US newsrooms since the late 1800s. But increasing access to them by the mid-1930s meant more agency and autonomy for news workers, freed from having to either share phones with colleagues in the newsroom or fight for access to phones outside of it (at least not as much). Granted, not every newsroom was awash in phones. Increasingly, however, after 1920 reporters and their pho…
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet is an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s in the recently computerized, but still largely unchanged, newspaper industry. Providing a focused narrative of how the internet disrupted news collection, editing, presentation and dissemination, the book examines the role of the internet from helpful adjunct to extension to, eventually, successor to…
An Enduring Ethos
In the twentieth century, in the United States, ideas of professional practice in journalism and journalism education grew up together. Occupational norms and professional practices were inscribed in reporting textbooks, which reflected the values of their era. They show a continuity of praxis, and an “enduring ethos” of journalistic values that survived into the 1960s and 1970s, in time to be picked up by the studies of Johnstone and then later …
Unionization in the American Newsroom, 1930 to 1960
This study of the material benefits brought to American news workers from the 1930s through the 1960s builds on previous work by media labor-studies scholars such as Bonnie Brennen, Daniel Leab, Phillip Glende and Sam Kuczun, among others, who have examined the history of the American Newspaper Guild (ANG) in great detail. Their work has focused on legal and policy developments under the Roosevelt administration and in U.S. labor law. My study, a…
Staying Cool
Along with the telephone and the car, the typewriter and other more “mundane” or otherwise unheralded background media technologies, air conditioning (AC) helped to develop modern American newspaper buildings and their newsrooms into the institutions they are today. AC was an invisible tool that was nonetheless felt—literally—when it was there and noted when it was not, as the century wore on and journalism developed into a more white-collar occu…
Opening Closed Regimes
An Enduring Ethos
In the twentieth century, in the United States, ideas of professional practice in journalism and journalism education grew up together. Occupational norms and professional practices were inscribed in reporting textbooks, which reflected the values of their era. They show a continuity of praxis, and an “enduring ethos” of journalistic values that survived into the 1960s and 1970s, in time to be picked up by the studies of Johnstone and then later …
Technology in the Newsroom
The telephone and other news-gathering technologies had been present in US newsrooms since the late 1800s. But increasing access to them by the mid-1930s meant more agency and autonomy for news workers, freed from having to either share phones with colleagues in the newsroom or fight for access to phones outside of it (at least not as much). Granted, not every newsroom was awash in phones. Increasingly, however, after 1920 reporters and their pho…
Unionization in the American Newsroom, 1930 to 1960
This study of the material benefits brought to American news workers from the 1930s through the 1960s builds on previous work by media labor-studies scholars such as Bonnie Brennen, Daniel Leab, Phillip Glende and Sam Kuczun, among others, who have examined the history of the American Newspaper Guild (ANG) in great detail. Their work has focused on legal and policy developments under the Roosevelt administration and in U.S. labor law. My study, a…
The mainframe era
Rise of the internet and the “full” computerization of the newsroom
This chapter covers the continued use of pre-internet networks, and wire services and bulletin boards deployed for user (i.e., reader) interaction. It briefly reviews the integration of decentralized computer networks in newsrooms, with a mix of content-management systems and PCs, and the increasing use of pagers/cellphones for reporting/news-gathering, including the shift from “portable” to mobile conceptualizations for these technologies. Early…
The microprocessor era
This chapter examines the microprocessor era, c. 1982–1992, and the rise of “smart” terminals, “microcomputers” and off-the-shelf hardware/software, along with the increasing use of computers in smaller news organizations (including newspapers and radio/TV stations). The use of “personal computers” in newsrooms (particularly smaller newsrooms) and operating systems such as MS-DOS, despite initial suspicion and cost, are reviewed.
Conclusion
The conclusion looks at what happened in the mid-1990s and what came after, with the foreshadowing of the interactive Web 2.0 and app-driven, mobile and generally more wired newsrooms of the twenty-first century, and reviews future research directions.
The minicomputer era
This chapter focuses on the “minicomputer” era, from c. 1970 through 1982, as the PDP-8 and VDTs, CRTs and other early “dumb terminals” and small local storage capabilities were beginning to transform larger newsrooms. This chapter also reviews initial news-worker experiences with computers for editing and publication, and covers the use of scanners and optical-scan recognition technology, and how these did not, in fact, become dominant.
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s. It focuses on how word processing and a number of related affordances, including mobile-reporting tools, impacted the daily work routines of American news workers. The narrative opens with the development of mainframes and their attendant use as databases in large, daily newspapers,…
A review essay
A short history of pandemic coverage on the Internet
This short history of previous online pandemic news coverage (of SARS, H1N1, MERS, c. 2003–2012) draws on Pew Research Center data and then-contemporary primary sources, including meta-journalistic analysis, to explore continuities and divergences to the present and our ongoing coranavirus pandemic. Numerous trends, including a cycle of neglect and panic, emerged on the Internet in the 2000s, and have become exacerbated over time. Other, more pos…
Early Development of News Sites in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1990s
The many close, trans-Atlantic connections between the United States and Britain were the setting and inspiration for much of how these nations’ respective media systems produce and consume news online today. Publishers, software engineers and journalists in both nations shared worries about the impact of the internet on the newspaper industry, and the early migration—or, in many cases, the uneven migration—to online news sites during the 1990s. …
Staying Cool
Along with the telephone and the car, the typewriter and other more “mundane” or otherwise unheralded background media technologies, air conditioning (AC) helped to develop modern American newspaper buildings and their newsrooms into the institutions they are today. AC was an invisible tool that was nonetheless felt—literally—when it was there and noted when it was not, as the century wore on and journalism developed into a more white-collar occu…
I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive
As journalists dealt with a nonstop news cycle in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their newspapers faced a financial crisis as advertising revenue sharply declined during economic shutdowns. Unable to rely on their centuries-old, advertising-centric business model, U.S. community newspapers had to turn to other means to survive. This study features oral histories with 24 journalists and state newspaper association directors in …
If Then
Reviewed by: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore Will Mari (bio) If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future By Jill Lepore. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Pp. 432. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future By Jill Lepore. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. Pp. 432. Other scholars, such as Charlton McIlwain, have explored the history of the mysterious and doom…
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet
Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet is an insightful account of what happened when the internet first arrived in the 1990s and early 2000s in the recently computerized, but still largely unchanged, newspaper industry. Providing a focused narrative of how the internet disrupted news collection, editing, presentation and dissemination, the book examines the role of the internet from helpful adjunct to extension to, eventually, successor to…
(Electronic) Mailing the Editor
In the mid-to-late 1990s, readers reacted to journalistic accounts of the world around them, from sending emails to posting to message boards on newspaper sites. Some of these practices, especially positive suggestions of sources and conversations with reporters, represent an earlier time’s web-optimism, now perhaps lost. This article will explore how design practices, including integrated forums, tabs, indexes and other early site design convent…
A Shot in the Arm
In a meditation on the future of journalism history, this essay focuses on some positive trends, including the growth of media history academic groups and the field’s broader expansion in terms of topics and connections, as well as some challenges with an eye toward hope. It also examines exemplars—in the form of journals, organizations, and scholars—who are showing a promising way forward during an uncertain time in journalism. This contemplatio…
Networks in motion
In this article, we turn back to the 1918 influenza pandemic to throw light on the alliances of information communication technologies and technologies of mobility (such as the car) during the pandemic. We examine newspaper articles, technical publications, and other historical texts to demonstrate that, despite the fact that mobile technologies-such as cellular phones-did not exist during the 1918 pandemic, the telephone and mobility technology …
Let Us Fly Our Drones
This study uses diffusion of innovations theory to examine the growing popularity of drone journalism across U.S. colleges. We argue that collegiate-level developments in drone journalism represent a shift in drone technology’s diffusion across society from an instrument limited to a few select groups to a technology that is now used by future professionals with the power to shape the practice of journalism. Through a content analysis of college …
Conceiving Computer-Assisted Reporting
This study examines how US-focused instructional textbooks presented newsgathering approaches associated with the Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) movement from the late 20th to the early 21st centuries. As newsrooms began a decades-long shift toward digitalization and data-driven, social-scientific reporting, industry thought leaders used educational texts to introduce and enculturate rank-and-file journalists into increasingly technologized pr…
Ahmed Topkev, A Democratic Approach to Religion News
Gendering of the “ideal user” in 1990s-era internet magazines
This project responds to calls by scholars to interrogate how gender was depicted on the early commercial internet. More broadly, it examines how the idea of “users” was and is constructed in different times and places. Specifically, it examines images—advertisements, photos, and other illustrations—and how they depicted gender norms and user behaviors on the internet—in their “idealized” forms. Our study looks at how magazines, such as Internet …
An early Web history of vaccine skeptical digital rhetorics
Vaccine hesitancy is a public health threat stoked by vaccine skeptical rhetorics that circulate via the Web. While there is a body of work that studies the digital rhetorical tactics of vaccine skeptics, most of this work focuses on the Web rhetorics of the “Web 2.0” era, leaving the “Web 1.0” era relatively understudied and, in turn, foreclosing opportunities to look back before moving forward in the current moment. In efforts to yield glimpses…
Political science (15 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (13 obras) · Media studies (12 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Newspaper (9 obras) · World Wide Web (8 obras) · Public relations (7 obras) · The Internet (7 obras)