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The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution
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Abstract The platformisation of news has triggered public and scholarly concern regarding the impact of platforms on the news industry and, more importantly, platforms’ potential threat to ideals of autonomy and economic independence. Despite ongoing debate and the increasing investment in technologies for a... view more
The platformisation of news has triggered public and scholarly concern regarding the impact of platforms on the news industry and, more importantly, platforms’ potential threat to ideals of autonomy and economic independence. Despite ongoing debate and the increasing investment in technologies for automated distribution and artificial intelligence, the material infrastructures of the news media sustaining this artificial intelligence-driven news distribution remain understudied. Approaching the infrastructural relationship as spaces of negotiation this article investigates how the news media is negotiating their own autonomy vis-à-vis infrastructure capture by platforms. The analysis is grounded in a mapping of technologies sustaining the production, distribution, and commercial viability of the media. This is further combined with ethnographic observations from two large Danish news organisations and 19 in-depth interviews with news organisations and digital intermediaries from Scandinavia, the US, and the UK. The research shows how infrastructure capture is manifested and negotiated through three overall logics in the infrastructure of news: logics of classification, standardisation, and datafication.... view less
Keywords
infrastructure; digitalization; standardization (meth.); news agency; artificial intelligence
Classification
Technology Assessment
Communicator Research, Journalism
Free Keywords
datafication; digital media infrastructures; infrastructure capture; media logics; platformisation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 307-318
Journal
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 2
Issue topic
A Datafied Society: Data Power, Infrastructures, and Regulations
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed