What aggregators do: Towards a networked concept of journalistic expertise in the digital age
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2013
Citazione:
What aggregators do: Towards a networked concept of journalistic expertise in the digital age / C. Anderson. - In: JOURNALISM. - ISSN 1464-8849. - 14:8(2013 Nov), pp. 1008-1023. [10.1177/1464884913492460]
Abstract:
This article analyzes expertise in the digital age through an ethnography of an increasingly valorized form of newswork – ‘serious, old fashioned reporting’ – and its purported occupational opposite, news aggregation. The article begins with a content analysis of the 4 March 2010 Federal Communications Commission workshop in which journalists tried to draw a sharp boundary between reporting and aggregation. In the second section the article explores the actual hybridized practices of journalistic aggregation. The empirical investigation serves as a scaffolding on which to build a theory of digital expertise that sees the nature and struggle over that expertise as networked properties. Expertise, according to the argument advanced in the final section, is neither a fixed property that can be ‘claimed’, nor is it simply the inevitable outcome of a clear occupational struggle over a particular jurisdiction. Specifically, the networks examined here coalesce around different conceptions of ‘what counts’ as a valid form of journalistic evidence under conditions of digitization.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Actor-Network Theory; aggregation; expertise; reporting; sociology of news
Elenco autori:
C. Anderson
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