Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two accelerating phenomena: cybernization (machines play a more and more central role in news production) and cyborgization (people rely more and more on machines). Barbara Czarniawska reveals that technological developments lead to many unexpected consequences and complications. Cyberfactories will prove essential to researchers interested in contemporary forms of organizing, studies of technology, and media. It will also appeal to a lay reader interested in how news is produced.
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Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters.
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Contents: 1. The Places Where Information Overflows 2. Three Histories 3. TT, or a Day at Work 4. ANSA, or Meetings and Teamwork 5. Reuters, or Tooling the News 6. How News is Produced References Index
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TT, Ansa, Reuters are not intermediaries that transfer information to their clients, rather they are producers of the news... or better, in this book, they are fac(s)tories. This passionate journey into the management of overflow of news in input and in output starts with the question: when a flow is an overflow? How people daily survive such overflow? Read the book and discover how the answer is simpler than expected! --Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780857939142
Publisert
2012-12-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Biographical note

Barbara Czarniawska, Professor Emerita of Management Studies, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden