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Learning from documents: Applying new theories of materiality to journalism
This article briefly reviews theories of materiality emerging in communication technology studies and organizational communication and then suggests three ways that journalism scholars might apply these theories to studies of news production. How journalists work, how journalism is shaped within newsrooms, the ways the news industry is changing, and ultimately, the effects of digital transitions […]
Book Review: Venture Labor in IJOC
Thank you Melina Sherman and the International Journal of Communication for writing and publishing a review of Venture Labor. Many books have been written about the decline of the manufacturing-industrial society and the massive social and economic shifts that characterize the late 20th and early 21st centuries (e.g., Castells et al., 2012; Cross, 2002; Stiglitz, 2010). However, few books on this […]
Uber removed blog post from data science team that examined link between prostitution and rides
I contributed to a great article at VentureBeat about Uber and its data management practices. Earlier today, Gina Neff, an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest, noticed something missing from Uber’s Data Blog. In a tweet, she wrote: The blog […]