[ecrea] 'Cyberfactories'

Edward Elgar

CYBERFACTORIES

NEW IN PAPERBACK!



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23 January 2013

Dear Dr Nico Carpentier,

Now available in paperback!

We are pleased to release the much-lauded 'Cyberfactories' by Barbara 
Czarniawska in a paperback edition.

'A passionate journey into the management
of overflow of news input and output'.

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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Cyberfactories
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How News Agencies Produce News

Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

‘Cyberfactories is surely not only for those curious about the 
alterations of journalism. Conclusions Czarniawska draws from her 
studies and from other works she explores can be inspiring for readers 
of a variety of interests even for the broad public. . . Circularity of 
news goes hand in hand with cyber-processes forming a characteristic 
syndrome of advanced societies. It is more than clear Cyberfactories 
proves this issue to be of critical significance.’

– Jerzy Stachowiak, Qualitative Sociology Review

‘Only the polyglott Barbara Czarniawska, a keen ethnographer of 
organizations, could give us a picture of the production of news in the 
age of digital reproduction. By a close description of the process 
through which news agencies elaborate this exquisitely complex product – 
the piece of news – she manages to give us a realistic interpretation of 
what technology and globalization do to journalism. Far from indicating 
the end of the trade and the dissolution of its credibility, her careful 
and witty account shows the many ways in which authority of information 
may be regained. Walter Lippmann would have loved this book.’

– Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris, France

‘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

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.


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

2013 Paperback 978 0 85793 914 2 £25.00 £20.00
2011 240 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 912 8 £65.00 £58.50
Elgaronline 978 0 85793 913 5

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