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Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age

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  • Eric Klinenberg

    (New York University)

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A paradox of contemporary sociology is that the discipline has largely abandoned the empirical study of journalistic organizations and news institutions at the moment when the media has gained visibility in political, economic, and cultural spheres; when other academic fields have embraced the study of media and society; and when leading sociological theorists have broken from the disciplinary cannon to argue that the media are key actors in modern life. This article examines the point of journalistic production in one major news organization and shows how reportersand editors manage constraints of time, space, and market pressure under regimes of convergence news making. It considers the implications of these conditions for the particular forms of intellectual and cultural labor that journalists produce, drawing connections between the political economy of the journalistic field, the organizational structure of multimedia firms, new communications technologies, and the qualities of content created by media workers.

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  • Eric Klinenberg, 2005. "Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 597(1), pages 48-64, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:597:y:2005:i:1:p:48-64
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716204270346
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    1. Shiyi Zhang & Panayiota Tsatsou & Lauren McLaren & Yimei Zhu, 2024. "Comparing location-specific and location-open social media data: methodological lessons from a study of blaming of minorities on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic," Journal of Computational Social Science, Springer, vol. 7(3), pages 2457-2479, December.
    2. Abdullahi Abdi Sheikh, 2020. "Will Newsrooms Continue to Be Relevant? Reflections on the Practices of Journalism in Kenya during Covid-19 Crisis," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 7(6), pages 01-05, June.

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