Bridging boundary work theory and the social construction of technology from a historical perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20053891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamas Tofalvy (0000-0001-6477-0854, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 47-66 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Histories of Digital Journalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003492436-6 |
| OpenAlex | W4403897793 |
| ISBN | 9781003492436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
One key discourse on the nature of digital journalism concerns the role of technology: how technological affordances, such as digitization, affect the practices of the profession. Another concerns the blurred state of the profession, the difficulties of distinguishing a journalist from a non-journalist, and the negotiation of the hierarchies of practices and practitioners. Although the two phenomena are closely related, as debates about the nature of the profession often arise in the context of technological change, the theoretical frameworks used in their academic interpretation are still quite far apart. Through combining theoretical concepts from boundary work theory and the social construction of technology, complemented by comparative media history, the chapter aims to explore the ways in which the constant renegotiation of values and meanings of the profession and those of “new” and “old” media technologies can be interrogated within a conceptual framework, in a historical perspective. Through this theoretical exploration, the chapter argues that on the one hand, the attachment of cultural meanings and values to media technologies converges with the boundary work of journalism in the construction of socio-technical boundaries of journalism, and that, on the other hand, the modes of this construction exhibit structural and historical continuities
Boundary (topology) · Bridging (networking) · Computer security · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Mathematical analysis · Perspective (graphical) · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History of Computing Technologies · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |