Digital currents : how technology and the public are shaping TV news / Rena Bivens.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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, 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.
