This book is an original an engaging consideation of, at an ethnographic level, news production and, at a conceptual level, the predicament of critical social inquiry in a digitally mediated world
Contents
Introduction : news journalism today -- The craft of slotting : screenwork, attentional practices and news value at an international news agency -- Click and spin : time, feedback and expertise at an online news portal -- Countdown : professionalism, publicity and political culture in 24/7 news radio -- The news informatic : five reflections on journalism in the era of digital liberalism -- Epilogue : informatic unconscious : on the evolution of digital reason in anthropology
