Circulating cities of difference: assembling geographical imaginations of Toronto’s diversity in the newsroom

Rodgers, Scott

doi:10.18573/j.2013.10243

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“…editing, layout, copyediting, beat reporting) upon material arrangements (e.g. office spaces, devices, infrastructures, mediums; see also Rodgers, 2013Rodgers, : 3-4, 2014. In connecting practice theory with new materialist thinking such as ANT, this approach has some similarities to that of Weiss and Domingo (2010), though with a stronger emphasis on what I would term the nonhuman and nonrepresentational aspects of journalism work.…”

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Foreign objects? Web content management systems, journalistic cultures and the ontology of software

Rodgers

2014

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Abstract:Research on 'digital' journalism has focused largely on online news, with comparatively less interest in the longer-term implications of software and computational technologies. Drawing upon a sixyear study of the Toronto Star, this paper provides an account of TOPS, an in-house web content management system (CMS) which served as the backbone of thestar.com for six years. For some, TOPS was a successful software innovation, while for others, a strategic digital 'property'. But for most journalists, it was slow, deficient in functionality, aesthetically unappealing and cumbersome. Although several organizational factors can explain TOPS' obstinacy, I argue for particular attention to the complex ontology of software. Based on an outline of this ontology, I suggest software be taken seriously as an object of journalism, which implies: acknowledging its partial autonomy from human use or authorization; accounting for its ability to mutate indefinitely; and analyzing its capacity to encourage forms of 'computational thinking'

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Section: Case Study and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%