Online/offscreen: On changing technology and practices in television journalism
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As televised news content is no longer being solely produced by professionals and consumed by family members staring at the box, the traditional television industry has entered a new era. This article introduces a set of theoretical propositions relating to the industry’s responses to such changes and, in particular, to the implementation of networked technologies and social media in television news organizations. The technological frames analytic lens was used to identify journalists’ assumptions and expectations about technology use and to explain the outcomes of technological and professional change in the journalistic environment. Through interviews conducted with journalists working for television news desks in Israel, we show that the interviewees’ perceptions of the technologies, the role of their organization, and the essence of their profession provide a meaningful explanation of the actual implementation of networked technologies. The findings resolve the contradiction between potential contribution of the emerging technologies and their limited use in journalistic organizations.
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Tamar Ashuri is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her work was published in journals such as New Media and Society, Communication, Culture and Critique, and Television and New Media. She is the author of the book The Arab Israeli Conflict in the Media: Producing Shared Memory in a Global Era (I.B. Tauris, 2011). Her new book The State of the Media with Palgrave Macmillan is forthcoming.
Atara Frenkel is head of the New Media Track and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Sapir Academic College, Israel. She holds a PhD in political studies and public communication. Her research interests include information and communication technologies and social media as well as elections, media, and public opinion. Her recent work centers on three-dimensional printing. Her work has been published in journals and books and presented in numerous conferences. In addition, she is the cofounder of a new media consulting company experienced in creation, implementation, and management of social media platforms and training programs.
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