Rena Bivens

Digital Currents

How Technology and the Public Are Shaping TV News

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 321
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615861
• ISBN-10: 1442615869
• Artikelnr.: 40112450

Autorenporträt

Rena Bivens is a Government of Canada Banting Fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Digital Media, Cultural Shifts and Television News 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, 24-hour News and Convergence
* Structure of this Book
Chapter 2: Constraining News Production: The View from the 20th Century
1. Evaluating the Literature
2. The Two Phases of Research: An Obsession with Constraints
3. Exposing the Social Construction of News
* Planning Routines: Relevance of the News Diary
* The Importance of Logistics
4. Society’s Information Producers
* The Reign of News Agencies
* Pre-Packaged PR News
* The Requirements of Objectivity and Impartiality
* The Relationship between Objectivity and Sources
* Official Sources and Production Routines
5. Internal and External Pressures
* Policy, Routinized Meetings and Editorial Control
* Incorporating External Pressure into Daily Practice
* Ensuring Conformity within News Organizations
* Complexities of the Broadcaster-State Relationship
* Instances of Direct Government Intervention
6. Shared News Values
* Images
* Importance, Interest and Entertainment
* Size, Proximity and Race
* Immediacy
7. Considering the Audience
8. Summary
Chapter 3: The Technology - Autonomy-Constraint Model
9. Description of the Model
10. Phases of News Production
11. Autonomy-Constraint Ratio
12. Analysis Using the TAC Model and Ratio
* Low Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Transmission Phase – Television
* Balanced Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Transmission Phase – Digital
Media
* Balanced Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Intake/Selection and Assignment
Phase
* Balanced Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Storywriting Phase
* High Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Newsgathering Phase
13. Summary
Chapter 4: Intake Phase – Information Producers and News Flow
14. Established Actors
* News Agencies
* Other News Organizations
* Official Sources and the Public Relations Industry
* News Bureaus
15. Unconventional Actors
* News Flow Patterns
* Development of Public News Production
* Social Media
* Breaking News
* Organizational Changes
* Credibility and the ‘Bloggers versus Journalists’ Debate
16. Summary
Chapter 5: Selection and Assignment Phase
17. Executive Producers and the Assignment Relationship
* General Assignment Reporters
* Beat Reporters: The Parliamentary Correspondent
* Foreign Correspondents
* Investigative Journalism
* Digital News Agency Feeds and Social Networking
18. Inside the Editorial Conference
* Institution-Driven News
* Creating Themes and Adding the Personal Element
* Subjectivity
* Line-up
* Retaining Flexibility
19. News Values
* Images: UGC, Social Media and Digital Graphics
* Interest and Importance
* Proximity
* Immediacy and Being First
* Complicating Factors: Online News, Social Media and Conglomeration
* Speed versus Accuracy
* Immediacy and Being Live
20. Summary
Chapter 6: Newsgathering, Storywriting and Transmission Phases
21. Issues of Control
* Implicit versus Explicit Control
* Editorial Control
* Presenters
* Packages
* Lives
* J-Blogging
* Social Networking Services
* Language
* Top-Down Control
22. Selecting Sources, Challenging Officials and Maintaining Balance
23. Digital Media and Newsgathering
* Research
* Locating Sources
* Resistance versus the New Cohort
24. Newsroom Technologies and Storywriting
* Non-Linear Editing
* Server Technology
* Speed and Cost
* Improved Workflow
* Archival Material
25. Transmission and Immediacy
* Transmitting from the Field
* Critiques of Live Coverage
* Social Networking Services
26. Summary
Chapter 7: External Pressures – Audiences, Governments and PR
27. Audiences
* Judging Audience Needs
* Linking Immediacy to Audience Expectations
* Interactivity
28. Complaints
* Campaigns, Evidence and Blogs
* Exposuregates and Retaining Credibility
29. Government and PR Pressures
* Public Relations: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
* Resisting Pressure
* Lack of Context and History
* Time Constraints and the Nature of Television
* Audience Attention Spans
* Top-Down Pressure
* Solutions: Go Online?
30. Summary
Chapter 8: Making News: Power, Journalists and the Public
Appendix: List of Interviews
References