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University of Illinois Press
July 2016
On Sale: July 13, 2016
320 pages
ISBN: 025204018X
EAN: 9780252040184
Kindle: B0189EHCQ8
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Non-Fiction
A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly
changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime
case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped "legacy
media," killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did
news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital "Spider"? To solve the mystery, Kevin Barnhurst spent thirty years
studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The
usual suspects--technology, business competition, and the
pursuit of scoops--are only partly to blame for the fate of
news. The main culprit is modernism from the "Mister
Pulitzer" era, which transformed news into an ideology
called "journalism." News is no longer what audiences or
experts imagine. Stories have grown much longer over the
past century and now include fewer events, locations, and
human beings. Background and context rule instead. News producers adopted modernism to explain the world
without recognizing how modernist ideas influence the
knowledge they produce. When webs of networked connectivity
sparked a resurgence in realist stories, legacy news stuck
to big-picture analysis that can alienate audience members
accustomed to digital briefs.
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