Digitizing the news innovation in online newspapers ebook

He then examines the formative years of news on the Web during the second half of the s, when the content of online newspapers varied from simple reproduction of the print edition to new material with interactive and multimedia features. With this picture of the recent history of non-print publishing as background, Boczkowski provides ethnographic, fly-on-the-wall accounts of three innovations in content creation: the Technology section of the New York Times on the Web, which was initially intended as the newspaper's space for experimentation with online news; the Virtual Voyager project of the HoustonChronicle.

His analyses of these ventures reveal how innovation in online newspapers became an ongoing process in which different combinations of initial conditions and local contingencies led publishers along divergent paths of content creation. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Digitizing the News , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 05, Carrie rated it liked it. This research is right in line with my own work, so it's sad that I just read this now. Case studies of three early efforts by newspapers to embrace new media forms, including NYT's Technology section, the Houston Chronicle's Virtual Voyages early multimedia effort , and New Jersey's Community Connection network of local nonprofits.

I was especially interested in reading about the nearly forgotten early efforts by newspapers in the s and early 90s like videotex. Contrary to popular belief, This research is right in line with my own work, so it's sad that I just read this now. Contrary to popular belief, it's not that newspapers have been totally unwilling to try new things; in fact they were among the first to realize the impact digital would have on news, and they did embrace innovation, though often the ways they went about it clung so heavily to print traditions that they were often doomed to fail.

Also its kind of understandable that after huge investments in things like videotex didn't pan out, they were cautious going forward. Funny how this book describes and documents a number of things now almost taken for granted as conventional in Web journalism circles, usefully helping to make the academic case, not just the circumstantial case, for things like the increasingly two-way, conversational nature of news, and the ways in which user-generated content challenges the hierarchical structure of classic newsroom bureaucracy.

No offense to Pablo given that sadly, this is what is taken for proof of scholarly acumen, but my only complaint is how this book explains what really are simple concepts and explains them in typically obtuse academic-ese.

Bloggers like those at Nieman Lab somehow manage to explore these very same concepts in simple, easy to understand prose. Especially the last part of the book falls victim to this.

Owen Youngman rated it it was amazing Nov 04, Will rated it really liked it Apr 14, Michele Weldon rated it liked it Sep 12, Apr 08, Marcelo rated it it was amazing. Exploring and Settling Alternatives to Print in the s and the Early s. When We Were Print People. Research Design. Boczkowski Anteprima non disponibile - JoAnne Yates Anteprima limitata - Informazioni bibliografiche. Boczkowski MIT Press , - pagine 0 Recensioni In this study of how daily newspapers in America have developed electronic publishing ventures, Pablo Boczkowski shows that new media emerge not just in a burst of revolutionary technological change but by merging the structures and practices of existing media with newly available technical capabilities.

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