Work

Technical frames, flexibility, and online pressures in TV newsrooms

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Teams of online professionals working for TV news organizations are reacting to a new, powerful wave of technological innovations brought by online video platform and live streaming features. This research uses social construction of technology as a theoretical framework to understand these changes and explain how online professionals working for Colombian TV stations are implementing digital technologies into their newsrooms to reinforce their online presence. This analysis aims to unpack practices and logics behind the implementation of digital technology in TV newsrooms. The study employs participant observation over the course of two months at two TV news organizations – Caracol TV and Citytv – and in-depth interviews with 45 online professionals to understand their practices and organizational arrangements when implementing digital technologies in an effort to adapt the traditional medium to the digital media ecosystem. Results show how socio-economic forces and journalistic practices shape technology but, at the same time, reveal how certain platforms impose their logic on news production and make producers partially lose control over technology.

Source: Information Communication & Society

DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2019.1657163

Author: Víctor García-Perdomo

Institution: Universidad de La Sabana

Language: English

Topic: Media Studies and Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Texas at Austin, Moody College of Communication