Mutual Shaping of a CMS for Social Journalism in a Hierarchical News Organization
| Autor: | Mark Anthony Poepsel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Hierarchy
hierarchy of influences model business.industry Control (management) Public relations lcsh:P87-96 Diffusion of innovations lcsh:Communication. Mass media social shaping of technology Social journalism diffusion of innovations Information and Communications Technology content management systems Organizational structure Journalism mutual shaping of technology Sociology Construct (philosophy) business Social shaping of technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Media Innovations, Vol 4, Iss 2 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1894-5562 |
| DOI: | 10.5617/jomi.v4i2.1312 |
| Popis: | This article presents a case study of a news organization examined when it was introducing a proprietary content management system (CMS) for social journalism. The CMS enables users to publish, form groups, and follow one another to create personalized local health news feeds. Applying the mutual shaping of technology (MST) construct in analysis organized according to the hierarchy of influences model, this article examines how the CMS influenced the news organization and vice versa. Even in an organization with a great deal of control over a small innovation, the predominant perception was that the CMS was a technological incursion rather than a tool to be molded. Instead of asserting professional norms over the technology as social shapers, journalists focused on managing changes in routines and organizational structures and on managing perceptions about the “experiment.” The project has stagnated. This article discusses why, and it addresses the usefulness of the MST construct for examining innovation iterations in news organizations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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