[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, September 27th - Pablo Boczkowski - (please RSVP)

[Harvard STS]

*STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Pablo Boczkowski*
*Northwestern University*
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*News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance*

Monday, September 27th
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided.
Please RSVP to sts at hks.harvard.edu by Thursday, September 23rd.

*Abstract: 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: http://tiny.cc/jjzqx
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*Biography: *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.


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