Reinventing Journalism: Supporting processes of invention and change in media worlds
Joakim Karlsen · NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives · 2018
Reinventing journalism by using the capabilities of the computer as the medium is called for to increasingly reach audiences both online and in mobile contexts. Based on several case studies, this thesis investigates processes of invention and change initiated to meet this call. The main obstacle for reinvention has been difficulties with mobilizing resources for taking the risks inherent in challenging existing conventions for what to make and how. The thesis contributes both to media studies and to technology design fields, by: 1) giving an early account of technically-advanced journalism in newsrooms; 2) undertaking a rare comparison of how processes of invention and change are undertaken in the media worlds of news and documentary film-making; 3) giving a description of a relatively new domain for the technology design fields; 4) developing a model of form-giving with the computer as the medium that relates computation, interactivity and collaboration; and 5) operationalizing the concepts of infrastructure and infrastructuring for researchers willing to engage with processes of reinvention in media worlds.