Matthew S Weber
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620729 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew S Weber |
| PRENOMES | Matthew S |
| SOBRENOME | Weber |
| ASSINATURA | WEBER M S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3880-9131 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Network Histories
This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relationships between actors (e.g., organizations and individuals). The network histories approach provides an analytical and methodological framework that builds on extant networks scholarship and enables an examination of the role that an actor’s prior histor…
Between Innovation and Standardization
Computational communication science is transitioning from an emerging to an established field within communication research, creating a need for proper guidelines and methodological standards. This forum gathers experienced computational communication science scholars to debate the merits and drawbacks of standardization and discuss the tension between innovation, rigor, and inclusion. The assembled perspectives review current standards for data …
Histories of Digital Journalism
Re-opening the Black Box of Code in the Era of Digital Technology
In this commentary piece, we discuss the imperative of understanding the role of code as a central, yet often opaque, part of journalism. From the foundational SQL and HTML to advanced AI models like ChatGPT, code now permeates every facet of news production and consumption. We aim, therefore, to critically examine the historical evolution and current implications of these technologies, emphasizing the need for journalists and scholars to scrutin…
In Code We Trust? Assessing Code’s Role as a Mediator of Power and Ethics Within Journalistic Practice
Coding, at its core, is an act of problem solving. Following this adoption and adaptation of journalistic code, the recent computational turn within newsrooms raises new questions about how and to what degree journalistic values are imprinted into code. Extending this line of scholarship, this special issue, “Opening the Black Box of Code in Journalism: Materiality, Manufacture and Methods,” studies journalistic code. Through the special issue, w…
Signaling and meaning in organizational analytics
The future of work will be measured. The increasing and widespread adoption of analytics, the use of digital inputs and outputs to inform organizational decision making, makes the communication of data central to organizing. This article applies and extends signaling theory to provide a framework for the study of analytics as communication. We report three cases that offer examples of dubious , selective , and ambiguous signaling in the activitie…
Explicating Local
In recent years, much has been made of the crisis in local news. Communities across the United States are rapidly losing local news coverage. In response, policymakers and community advocates have sought to craft new mechanisms to support the health of local news ecosystems. This work interrogates the core ways in which community members understand and define the communities within which they live and examines the socioeconomic and media variable…
Innovation in Public Funding for Local Journalism
This article explores an effort to direct state-level public funds toward journalism by using a national policy window combined with an intensive grass-roots effort. We use the lens of Kingdon’s policy process model to showcase dynamics that contribute to the media policymaking literature. The process and enactment of New Jersey’s 2018 Civic Information Consortium bill are analyzed using a combination of archival research and oral history, highli…
Local Journalism and At-Risk Communities in the United States
A substantial amount of attention has been devoted to the ongoing crisis affecting local journalism. Terms such as ‘news deserts’ and ‘journalism divides’ have been used to describe an emerging scenario in which some communities have relatively robust local news ecosystems, while others do not. However, despite the fact that such concepts indicate substantial differences across communities, researchers have only recently begun to try to understan…
Internet histories and computational methods
This conversation brings together leading experts within the field of computational methods. Participants were invited to discuss “Internet histories and computational methods”, and the debate focused on issues such as why scholars of internet histories should consider using computational methods, what scholars should be looking out for when they use these methods, how the process of collecting influences computational research, what impedes the …
Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in improving the likelihood that scientific research informs public policy and professional practice, and journalists are well-positioned to serve in this role given their contributions to the flow and exchange of knowledge in society. To better understand the functions and mechanisms by which journalists may broker scientific knowledge, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of healt…
Careers in Modern Professional Journalism
New categorizations of journalists are developing as news organizations turn to programmers, coders, and data specialists to fill jobs associated with emergent skills and developing technology (Ait
Methods and Approaches to Using Web Archives in Computational Communication Research
This article examines the role of web archives as a critical source of data for conducting computational communication research. Web archives are large-scale databases containing comprehensive records of websites showing how those websites have evolved over time. Recent communication scholarship using web archives is reviewed, demonstrating the breadth of research conducted in this space. Subsequently, a methodological framework is proposed for u…
Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes
A broad range of methodologies is routinely employed to track and analyse use of research evidence in public policymaking. However, available methods and tools are mostly equipped to track ‘evidence’ but are less equipped to capture and represent ‘use’ of evidence. In particular, existing methods overlook policymakers’ frequent use of evidence for political persuasion and bargaining. Drawing on established theories and research tools from the fie…
News Media as Knowledge Brokers in Public Policymaking Processes
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence…
Transformation of a Modern Newsroom Workforce
Digital transformation continues to impact the news industry and news organizations are adapting accordingly through shifts in required skills and prescribed job positions of journalists. In order to examine the changing nature of the modern journalist, a case study was conducted examining the employment histories of New York City journalists (n = 3587). Social network analysis was used to better understand the career trajectories of journalists …
The tumultuous history of news on the web
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror
Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding…
Unseen Disruptions and the Emergence of New Organizations
This article develops the theoretical process of organizational speciation to explain how certain new organizations are able to emerge and subsequently disrupt the organizational ecosystem by leveraging the blind spots of existing organizations. The process of organizational speciation addresses the means by which new organizations develop, compete for resources, and survive over time. As a theory of organizational communication, organizational s…
The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations
Enterprise social network sites (ESNSs) are increasingly being introduced into large multinational organizations. In this article, we consider their potential for supporting knowledge-sharing practices within the organization. First, we build on prior work on affordances by applying notions of collective affordances and affordances for organizing to the study of social media, and we theorize how ESNSs may provide organizational affordances for kn…
Newspapers and the Long-Term Implications of Hyperlinking
This study examines the impact of hyperlinks as a mechanism for establishing interorganizational linkages. In specific, this research focuses on the effect of hyperlinks between newspaper organizations and new entrants into the news media community from 1999 to 2006. Through the lens of community ecology, the formation of hyperlinks is show to facilitate information sharing and knowledge exchange. The findings highlight the importance of hyperlin…
The Flow of Digital News in a Network of Sources, Authorities, and Hubs
This article presents an analysis of the flow of information in a network of online news sites. Social network theory and research on hyperlinked networks of Web pages are used to develop a model of information flow among Web sites. Kleinberg's authority-hub model is extended by introducing sources of information in the network. Significant support was found for a Source–Authority–Hub model, which shows the source, directionality, routing, and de…
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror
Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding…
The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations
Enterprise social network sites (ESNSs) are increasingly being introduced into large multinational organizations. In this article, we consider their potential for supporting knowledge-sharing practices within the organization. First, we build on prior work on affordances by applying notions of collective affordances and affordances for organizing to the study of social media, and we theorize how ESNSs may provide organizational affordances for kn…
Newspapers and the Long-Term Implications of Hyperlinking
This study examines the impact of hyperlinks as a mechanism for establishing interorganizational linkages. In specific, this research focuses on the effect of hyperlinks between newspaper organizations and new entrants into the news media community from 1999 to 2006. Through the lens of community ecology, the formation of hyperlinks is show to facilitate information sharing and knowledge exchange. The findings highlight the importance of hyperlin…
Explicating Local
In recent years, much has been made of the crisis in local news. Communities across the United States are rapidly losing local news coverage. In response, policymakers and community advocates have sought to craft new mechanisms to support the health of local news ecosystems. This work interrogates the core ways in which community members understand and define the communities within which they live and examines the socioeconomic and media variable…
News Media as Knowledge Brokers in Public Policymaking Processes
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence…
Transformation of a Modern Newsroom Workforce
Digital transformation continues to impact the news industry and news organizations are adapting accordingly through shifts in required skills and prescribed job positions of journalists. In order to examine the changing nature of the modern journalist, a case study was conducted examining the employment histories of New York City journalists (n = 3587). Social network analysis was used to better understand the career trajectories of journalists …
Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in improving the likelihood that scientific research informs public policy and professional practice, and journalists are well-positioned to serve in this role given their contributions to the flow and exchange of knowledge in society. To better understand the functions and mechanisms by which journalists may broker scientific knowledge, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of healt…
Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes
A broad range of methodologies is routinely employed to track and analyse use of research evidence in public policymaking. However, available methods and tools are mostly equipped to track ‘evidence’ but are less equipped to capture and represent ‘use’ of evidence. In particular, existing methods overlook policymakers’ frequent use of evidence for political persuasion and bargaining. Drawing on established theories and research tools from the fie…
Careers in Modern Professional Journalism
New categorizations of journalists are developing as news organizations turn to programmers, coders, and data specialists to fill jobs associated with emergent skills and developing technology (Ait
Unseen Disruptions and the Emergence of New Organizations
This article develops the theoretical process of organizational speciation to explain how certain new organizations are able to emerge and subsequently disrupt the organizational ecosystem by leveraging the blind spots of existing organizations. The process of organizational speciation addresses the means by which new organizations develop, compete for resources, and survive over time. As a theory of organizational communication, organizational s…
Internet histories and computational methods
This conversation brings together leading experts within the field of computational methods. Participants were invited to discuss “Internet histories and computational methods”, and the debate focused on issues such as why scholars of internet histories should consider using computational methods, what scholars should be looking out for when they use these methods, how the process of collecting influences computational research, what impedes the …
The Flow of Digital News in a Network of Sources, Authorities, and Hubs
This article presents an analysis of the flow of information in a network of online news sites. Social network theory and research on hyperlinked networks of Web pages are used to develop a model of information flow among Web sites. Kleinberg's authority-hub model is extended by introducing sources of information in the network. Significant support was found for a Source–Authority–Hub model, which shows the source, directionality, routing, and de…
Newspapers and the Long-Term Implications of Hyperlinking
This study examines the impact of hyperlinks as a mechanism for establishing interorganizational linkages. In specific, this research focuses on the effect of hyperlinks between newspaper organizations and new entrants into the news media community from 1999 to 2006. Through the lens of community ecology, the formation of hyperlinks is show to facilitate information sharing and knowledge exchange. The findings highlight the importance of hyperlin…
The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations
Enterprise social network sites (ESNSs) are increasingly being introduced into large multinational organizations. In this article, we consider their potential for supporting knowledge-sharing practices within the organization. First, we build on prior work on affordances by applying notions of collective affordances and affordances for organizing to the study of social media, and we theorize how ESNSs may provide organizational affordances for kn…
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror
Appropriation is the process through which technology users go beyond mere adoption to make technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices. The appropriation process is a negotiation about power and control over the configuration of technology, its uses, and the distribution of its benefits. The negotiation surrounding technology appropriation echoes earlier creative tensions in the New World regarding…
Unseen Disruptions and the Emergence of New Organizations
This article develops the theoretical process of organizational speciation to explain how certain new organizations are able to emerge and subsequently disrupt the organizational ecosystem by leveraging the blind spots of existing organizations. The process of organizational speciation addresses the means by which new organizations develop, compete for resources, and survive over time. As a theory of organizational communication, organizational s…
The tumultuous history of news on the web
Methods and Approaches to Using Web Archives in Computational Communication Research
This article examines the role of web archives as a critical source of data for conducting computational communication research. Web archives are large-scale databases containing comprehensive records of websites showing how those websites have evolved over time. Recent communication scholarship using web archives is reviewed, demonstrating the breadth of research conducted in this space. Subsequently, a methodological framework is proposed for u…
Analysing use of evidence in public policymaking processes
A broad range of methodologies is routinely employed to track and analyse use of research evidence in public policymaking. However, available methods and tools are mostly equipped to track ‘evidence’ but are less equipped to capture and represent ‘use’ of evidence. In particular, existing methods overlook policymakers’ frequent use of evidence for political persuasion and bargaining. Drawing on established theories and research tools from the fie…
News Media as Knowledge Brokers in Public Policymaking Processes
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence…
Transformation of a Modern Newsroom Workforce
Digital transformation continues to impact the news industry and news organizations are adapting accordingly through shifts in required skills and prescribed job positions of journalists. In order to examine the changing nature of the modern journalist, a case study was conducted examining the employment histories of New York City journalists (n = 3587). Social network analysis was used to better understand the career trajectories of journalists …
Internet histories and computational methods
This conversation brings together leading experts within the field of computational methods. Participants were invited to discuss “Internet histories and computational methods”, and the debate focused on issues such as why scholars of internet histories should consider using computational methods, what scholars should be looking out for when they use these methods, how the process of collecting influences computational research, what impedes the …
Journalists as Knowledge Brokers
Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in improving the likelihood that scientific research informs public policy and professional practice, and journalists are well-positioned to serve in this role given their contributions to the flow and exchange of knowledge in society. To better understand the functions and mechanisms by which journalists may broker scientific knowledge, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of healt…
Careers in Modern Professional Journalism
New categorizations of journalists are developing as news organizations turn to programmers, coders, and data specialists to fill jobs associated with emergent skills and developing technology (Ait
Innovation in Public Funding for Local Journalism
This article explores an effort to direct state-level public funds toward journalism by using a national policy window combined with an intensive grass-roots effort. We use the lens of Kingdon’s policy process model to showcase dynamics that contribute to the media policymaking literature. The process and enactment of New Jersey’s 2018 Civic Information Consortium bill are analyzed using a combination of archival research and oral history, highli…
Local Journalism and At-Risk Communities in the United States
A substantial amount of attention has been devoted to the ongoing crisis affecting local journalism. Terms such as ‘news deserts’ and ‘journalism divides’ have been used to describe an emerging scenario in which some communities have relatively robust local news ecosystems, while others do not. However, despite the fact that such concepts indicate substantial differences across communities, researchers have only recently begun to try to understan…
Explicating Local
In recent years, much has been made of the crisis in local news. Communities across the United States are rapidly losing local news coverage. In response, policymakers and community advocates have sought to craft new mechanisms to support the health of local news ecosystems. This work interrogates the core ways in which community members understand and define the communities within which they live and examines the socioeconomic and media variable…
Signaling and meaning in organizational analytics
The future of work will be measured. The increasing and widespread adoption of analytics, the use of digital inputs and outputs to inform organizational decision making, makes the communication of data central to organizing. This article applies and extends signaling theory to provide a framework for the study of analytics as communication. We report three cases that offer examples of dubious , selective , and ambiguous signaling in the activitie…
Re-opening the Black Box of Code in the Era of Digital Technology
In this commentary piece, we discuss the imperative of understanding the role of code as a central, yet often opaque, part of journalism. From the foundational SQL and HTML to advanced AI models like ChatGPT, code now permeates every facet of news production and consumption. We aim, therefore, to critically examine the historical evolution and current implications of these technologies, emphasizing the need for journalists and scholars to scrutin…
In Code We Trust? Assessing Code’s Role as a Mediator of Power and Ethics Within Journalistic Practice
Coding, at its core, is an act of problem solving. Following this adoption and adaptation of journalistic code, the recent computational turn within newsrooms raises new questions about how and to what degree journalistic values are imprinted into code. Extending this line of scholarship, this special issue, “Opening the Black Box of Code in Journalism: Materiality, Manufacture and Methods,” studies journalistic code. Through the special issue, w…
Network Histories
This article details “network histories” as a methodological approach for studying organizations, teams, and individuals in digital journalism. Network histories trace the pattern of prior relationships between actors (e.g., organizations and individuals). The network histories approach provides an analytical and methodological framework that builds on extant networks scholarship and enables an examination of the role that an actor’s prior histor…
Between Innovation and Standardization
Computational communication science is transitioning from an emerging to an established field within communication research, creating a need for proper guidelines and methodological standards. This forum gathers experienced computational communication science scholars to debate the merits and drawbacks of standardization and discuss the tension between innovation, rigor, and inclusion. The assembled perspectives review current standards for data …
Histories of Digital Journalism
Political science (16 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Public relations (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Social Media and Politics (10 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (9 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Journalism (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Data science (5 obras)