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Challenges of Innovation in Online Newsrooms: Broadband Media Seminar Reflections

Join us at the International Seminar in Lisbon on September 23, 2009, as David Domingo discusses the hurdles faced by online newsrooms when adopting interactivity and multimedia innovations. Explore innovation assessment, interactive practices, and the impact of broader broadband developments. Discover the dynamic process of decision-making and the influence of economic factors on fostering audience participation. Gain insights on how journalism culture, technology, and economic context shape newsroom practices. Feedback welcomed! Contact david.domingo@urv.cat.

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Challenges of Innovation in Online Newsrooms: Broadband Media Seminar Reflections

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  1. (OBS*) International Seminar: Broadband Media Lisboa, September 23, 2009 David Domingo, UniversitatRoviraiVirgili (Tarragona, Catalonia) Innovation and inertia in online newsrooms: challenges for the adoption of interactivity and multimedia

  2. Assessing innovation in online newsrooms • Reflections based on: • Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (2008, Peter Lang). Edited with Chris Paterson. • Audience Participation in Online Newspapers: Guarding Open Gates (Forthcoming, Routledge). With Jane Singer, Thorsten Quandt, Alfred Hermida, Ari Heinonen, Steve Paulussen, Marina Vujnovic, Zvi Reich.

  3. A constructivist approach • Technology is adopted in specific contexts • Adoption is historically embedded • Decision-making is an open, dynamic process • => Newsrooms have agency • => No room for technological determinism

  4. Actor-Network Theory • Network of actors • Mapping power relationships • Defining positions, conflicting definitions • Process of translations • Obligatory points of passage • Black boxes

  5. Online journalism as work-in-progress • Strong mythical discourses • Buzzwords change, myths stay • Technological innovations push • Media follow the trail • Mimicry effect • Decisions still made locally • Ethnography to assess how myths are translated into real practices

  6. The rule of immediacy • Immediacy as the key Internet myth for journalism • Consequences: • Focus on breaking news • Dependency on news wire copy • Lack of resources for other activities

  7. Multimedia in online newsrooms • External factors: • Broadband development • Boom of user-generated video • Internal processes: • Different solutions in different contexts • Cases: 3 Catalan newsrooms • Public broadcaster • Newspaper • Online-only news site

  8. Multimedia in online newsrooms

  9. Interactivity: motivations • International comparative study of journalist attitudes towards audience participation • Motivations: • Inevitable: audience wants to participate • Economic: fostering audience loyalty • Journalistic: new sources • Democratic: public debate

  10. Interactivity: practices

  11. Interactivity: practices • Separate team to manage audience participation • Protecting journalists role and routines • Different solutions possible:

  12. Conclusions • Journalism seems to be conservative regarding innovation • Professional culture and identity strongly shape technologies • Materiality matters: decisions taken affect the work of journalists • Economic context matters: resources, revenue strategies

  13. Room for action • Innovation is possible: nothing is pre-determined • Knowing factors involved in the process empowers newsrooms • There are few explicit structures for innovation management

  14. Feedback welcomed! david.domingo@urv.cat www.dutopia.net twitter: @dutopia

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