Digital currents : how technology and the public are shaping TV news
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442615861
- Physical Description: vii, 321 pagges ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-305) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Digital media, cultural shifts, and television new production -- The public's arrival -- Focus of this book -- A note on causation: technologies and society -- User-generated content and citizen journalism -- Social networking services -- Television news organizations: the hierarchical structure -- Canada versus the UK -- General path and control structure of a television news item -- Bulletins, twenty-four-hour news, and convergence -- Structure of this book -- 2. Constraining new production: the view from the twentieth century -- Evaluating the literature -- Two phases of research: an obsession with constraints -- Exposing the social construction of news -- Society's information producers -- Internal and external pressures -- Shared news values -- Considering the audience -- 3. The technology-autonomy-constraint model -- Description of the model -- Phases of news production -- Autonomy-constraint ratio -- Analysis using the TAC model and ratio -- 4. Intake phase: information producers and news flow -- Established actors -- Unconventional actors -- 5. Selection and assignment phase -- Executive producers and the assignment relationship -- Inside the editorial conference -- News values -- 6. News-gathering, story-writing, and transmission phases -- Issues of control -- Selecting sources, challenging officials, and maintaining balance -- Digital media and news-gathering -- Newsroom technologies and story-writing -- Transmission and immediacy -- 7. External pressures: audiences, governments, and public relations -- Audiences -- Complaints -- Government and PR pressures -- 8. Making news: power, journalists, and the public. |
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Subject: | Broadcast journalism -- Technological innovations Broadcast journalism -- Social aspects Television broadcasting of news Online journalism Social media |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Cranbrook Campus | PN 4784 .T3459 2013 (Text) | 31111000108421 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |