<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large; "><font color="#660000"><b>STS Circle at Harvard</b></font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b><br></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Pablo Boczkowski</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><i><font color="#000000">Northwestern University</font></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><font color="#000000"><br></font></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: small; "><font color="#000000">on</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: large; "><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font color="#000000">News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance</font></span></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">Monday, September 27th</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align: center; ">
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<div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">Lunch is provided.</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">Please RSVP to </font><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); "><font color="#000000">sts@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by Thursday, September 23rd.</font></div>
<div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><font color="#000000">Abstract: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">From the book jacket: "Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustomed to instant access to a growing supply of constantly updated stories on the Web. This change in the amount of news available as well as how we consume it has been coupled with an unexpected development in editorial labor: rival news organizations can now keep tabs on the competition and imitate them, resulting in a decrease in the diversity of the news. Peeking inside the newsrooms where journalists create stories and the work settings where the public reads them, Pablo J. Boczkowski reveals why journalists contribute to the growing similarity of news—even though they dislike it—and why consumers acquiesce to a media system they find increasingly dissatisfying. Comparing and contrasting two newspapers in Buenos Aires with similar developments in the United States, News at Work offers an enlightening perspective on living in a world with more information but less news." For more information, a copy of the Introduction is available here: <a href="http://tiny.cc/jjzqx">http://tiny.cc/jjzqx</a></span><br>
</font></b><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000"> </font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><b><font color="#000000">Biography: </font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Pablo J. Boczkowski (Ph.D., 2001, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University) is Professor of Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University and also, during the current academic year, Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research program examines the transition from print to digital media, with a focus on the organizational and occupational dynamics of contemporary journalism. He is the author of "Digitizing the News: Innovations in Online Newspapers" (MIT Press, 2004) and "News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance" (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Boczkowski is currently working on three book projects. The first, in collaboration with Eugenia Mitchelstein, analyzes the divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers in North America, Latin America and Western Europe, and reflects on the implications of this divergence for the future of media and democracy. The second is an ethnographic and historical study of the demise of print newspapers in the United States, France and Argentina as a window into larger dynamics of institutional crisis. The third, joint with Tarleton Gillespie and Kirsten Foot, is an edited volume on the linkages between the fields of communication and science and technology studies. </font></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font color="#000000">A complete list of STS Circle at Harvard events can be found on our website:</font></div>
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