Mister Pulitzer and the spider : modern news from realism to the digital

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    • Barnhurst, Kevin G.

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Mister Pulitzer and the spider : modern news from realism to the digital

Kevin G. Barnhurst

(The history of communication)

University of Illinois Press, c2016

  • : hardcover

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Bibliography: p. [261]-280

Includes index

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Description

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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Details

  • NCID
    BB22199721
  • ISBN
    • 9780252040184
  • LCCN
    2016937571
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Urbana
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 297 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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