"I do like to get in there and play with it myself": Affordances for Emerging Technology Experimentation in Post-COVID Newsroom Infrastructures
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This paper inspects newsroom infrastructures and their affordances in the post-COVID era. It identifies shifts in two newsroom infrastructures that have already been defined in scholarly literature: the networked newsroom and the virtual newsroom. It also academically defines a new newsroom infrastructure that has emerged in journalists’ professional conversations in the post-COVID era: the distributed newsroom. By employing theories of infrastructure and affordances and conceptualizing the newsroom as a laboratory that creates facts, this paper unpacks how existing and emergent newsroom infrastructures afford for or prevent experimentation with new technology tools, including emergent data and artificial intelligence tools, in the news making process.
Source: Libra
DOI: 10.18130/df8s-y198
Author: Emilia Ruzicka
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6887999503
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