[ecrea] new book Cyberfactories - How News Agencies Produce News

20% discount for ECREA members =96 Much anticipated new release from Barbara Czarniawska!

Cyberfactories - How News Agencies Produce News



*Barbara Czarniawska**, University of Gothenburg, Sweden*



=91Only 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 =96 the piec=
e
of news =96 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.=92

=96 Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris, France



=91TT, 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!=92

=96 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.



*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.



*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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