Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure

Tracing News Organizations and Programming Publics in Application Programming Interfaces

Bibliographic Data

ID3755591
AuthorsMike Ananny (0000-0001-7160-212X, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume57
Issue5
Pages623-642
Publication date2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764212469363
OpenAlexW2105221829
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited52

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, review their relationship to models of the public sphere, and trace the motivations and assumptions embedded within news organizations' application programming interfaces, software toolkits that let those outside the newsroom access and repurpose journalistic data

Business · Knowledge management · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public sphere · Scholarship · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Tracing · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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