Trading zones, boundary objects, and the pursuit of news innovation
A case study of journalists and programmers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7501043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan C Lewis (0000-0001-7498-0599, University of Oregon, corresponding author), Seth C Lewis (University of Oregon), Nikki Usher (0000-0001-7297-4427, George Washington University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 543-560 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-8565 • E-ISSN: 1748-7382 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354856515623865 |
| OpenAlex | W2518835661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 40 |
Amid growing calls for greater collaboration between journalism and computer programming, this article examines a salient case study that reveals processes of communication, exchange, and work production at the intersection of these social and occupational worlds. We focus on a key stage of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology partnership – namely, an online ‘Learning Lab’ through which 60 individuals sought to coordinate around a shared interest in the innovation of journalism through open-source software. Drawing on the science and technology studies concepts of trading zones and boundary objects, we explore how distinct understandings about news and technology converged, diverged, and ultimately blended around three thematic ambitions: making news more process-oriented, participatory, and socially curated. This window onto boundary negotiations in journalism provides a glimpse into the future development of news and its norms and values, as programmers and their ethics assume a greater role in the journalistic field – in the very heart of some of its leading institutions
Boundary-work · Citizen journalism · Field (mathematics · General partnership · Journalism · Knowledge management · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Salient · Social media · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Social Media and Politics · Law
Examining innovation as process
VPNs as boundary objects of the internet
AI and newsmaking
Robots in the News and Newsrooms
Open-Source Repositories as Trust-Building Journalism Infrastructure
Design Implications for a Burgeoning Digital Product Ecosystem
Dancing with AI
Exploring Communicative AI
Collaborative Coding Cultures
A Question of Design
From Public Reason to Public Health
Journalism, the sociology of knowledge, and science studies
Collaboration or co-optation? Navigating power asymmetries in publicly-funded innovation partnerships for the journalism sector
Boundaries of data journalism in U.S. public radio newsrooms
Networks of Influence
Disability as an Afterthought
Open-Source Trading Zones and Boundary Objects
“It’s New to Us”
Media-Tech Companies as Agents of Innovation
How journalism researchers navigate the AI hype
The Data Journalism Handbook
“It’s Not Hate but … ”
Big Data as a differentiating sociocultural element of data journalism
Journalists’ Adoption and Media’s Coverage of Data-driven Journalism
Enthusiasm and Alienation
Deciphering Code
Coding Competencies across Roles
Data Journalism at German Newspapers and Public Broadcasters
Re-Thinking Trust in the News
Failure to Launch
Exploring the Fragmentation of the Representation of Data-Driven Journalism in the Twittersphere
How do journalists leverage Twitter? Expressive and consumptive use of Twitter
Jenseits der Disruption
Curators of digital futures
Securing Whistleblowing in the Digital Age
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments
Pushing for Social Change
Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production
Quantifying Quality
From Boundary to Bridge and Beyond
Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism
Changing or Reinforcing the “Rules of the Game
On the Democratic Role of News Recommenders
Unboxing news automation
Boundary Work, Interloper Media, And Analytics In Newsrooms
Atomising the News
The Two Faces of Janus
The German Data Journalist in 2021
Between Personal and Public Interest
Probabilistic Storytelling and Temporal Exigencies in Predictive Data Journalism
A Field Analysis of Journalism in the Automation Age
Recoding Journalism
Competition, Change, and Coordination and Collaboration
Entrepreneurial journalism
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post
Peripheral news workers expelled to the periphery
Laboratories for news? Experimenting with journalism hackathons
Border patrol
Introduction
News at Work
The System of Professions
The Sense of Dissonance
Making News at The New York Times
Life in the Trading Zone
Engaging Boundary Objects in OMS and STS? Exploring the Subtleties of Layered Engagement
Sorting Things Out
Anthropology and the Educational ‘Trading Zone’
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Beyond user-generated content
Social Media at BBC News
The Tension Between Professional Control and Open Participation
Have They Got News for Us
Rebuilding the News
The Meaning and Influence of Convergence
Towards a sociology of computational and algorithmic journalism
What's Stopping Them
Interactive Journalism
Open source and journalism
From Journalism to Information
Code, Collaboration, And The Future Of Journalism
Data-driven journalism and the public good
Can Journalism Survive? An inside look at American newsrooms
Boundaries of Journalism
Big Data and Journalism
Who are these Guys
The political j-blogger
What is journalism
This is Not a Boundary Object
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy
Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure
Engineering Objects for Collaboration
| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |