[Air-L] New Book: Networked Press Freedom (MIT Press)

[Mike Ananny]

Hello,

Please excuse the cross-postings, but I'm excited to share that my new 
book is now shipping:

*/Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right 
to Hear/* (MIT Press)

Amazon: 
https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/0262037742

Read introduction for free: 
http://mike.ananny.org/ananny_introduction_networkedPressFreedom_2018.pdf

The full description and endorsements are below, but the book 
essentially asks:

  * What does press freedom mean today, and why does it matter?
  * As lines blur between publishers and platforms, how can we think
    about what the networked press /should/ be?
  * As news organizations, philanthropists, regulators, and
    technologists all jockey for power to create the networked press,
    how do their moves create particular types of press freedom, and
    publics?
  * How can a reinterpretation of the First Amendment and press freedom
    history offer new ways to think about the press freedom journalists
    and technologists are creating today?

I tried to make the book accessible not only to media and technology 
scholars, but also to students, journalists, policy-makers, 
philanthropists, technologists, and regulators looking for new ways to 
think about the press, its freedoms, and journalism's relationships to 
technology.

I'd be extremely grateful if you could please help spread the word, and 
share with folks you think might be interested.

     All the best,
     -- Mike.

*****

*NETWORKED PRESS FREEDOM*
/Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear/

By Mike Ananny

Amazon: 
https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/0262037742

Read introduction for free: 
http://mike.ananny.org/ananny_introduction_networkedPressFreedom_2018.pdf

*Key questions:*

  * What does press freedom mean today, and why does it matter?
  * As lines blur between publishers and platforms, how can we think
    about what the networked press /should/ be?
  * As news organizations, philanthropists, regulators, and
    technologists all jockey for power to create the networked press,
    how do their moves create particular types of press freedom, and
    publics?
  * How can a reinterpretation of the First Amendment and press freedom
    history offer new ways to think about the press freedom journalists
    and technologists are creating today?

*OVERVIEW*

In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about 
freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental 
flux. Ananny challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from 
heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on 
journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science 
and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism 
discourse about news and technology, he argues that press freedom 
emerges from social, technological, institutional, and normative forces 
that vie for power and fight for visions of democratic life. He shows 
how dominant, historical ideals of professionalized press freedom often 
mistook journalistic freedom from constraints for the public’s freedom 
to encounter the rich mix of people and ideas that self-governance 
requires. Ananny's notion of press freedom ensures not only an 
individual right to speak, but also a public right to hear.

Seeing press freedom as essential for democratic self-governance, Ananny 
explores what publics need, what kind of free press they should demand, 
and how today's press freedom emerges from intertwined collections of 
humans and machines.

If someone says, "The public needs a free press," Ananny urges us to ask 
in response, "What kind of public, what kind of freedom, and what kind 
of press?" Answering these questions shows what robust, self-governing 
publics need to demand of technologists and journalists alike.

*ABOUT THE AUTHOR*

Mike Ananny is Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism in 
the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California and a 
Faculty Affiliate in USC’s Science, Technology, and Society initiative 
and a Fellow with Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

*ENDORSEMENTS*

"By interrogating the public's right to hear as a critical complement to 
speech rights, Networked Press Freedom offers one of the most original 
accounts of the power and possibilities of journalism. Ananny 
masterfully blends a wide array of literatures and a textured 
understanding of the news. The result is a must-read text poised to make 
a major contribution for decades to come."

     --- *Pablo J. Boczkowski*, Professor, School of Communication, 
Northwestern University; coauthor of The News Gap; author of Digitizing 
the News and News at Work

"This book is a brilliant analysis of how to interpret freedom of the 
press in the age of the real-time social web. At a time when technology 
companies, press institutions, and the public are mired in confusion as 
to their rights and roles in preserving democracy, Networked Press 
Freedom is a beacon of clarity, shedding light and bringing definition 
to this foggy landscape."

     --- *Emily Bell*, Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism; 
Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Journalism School

*****

*---
MIKE ANANNY*
+ /NEW BOOK:/ "Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a 
Public Right to Hear" [Amazon 
<https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/0262037742> 
| MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom>]
+ /Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism/ | Annenberg School 
for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California
+ /Faculty Affiliate/ | Science, Technology, and Society, University of 
Southern California
+ /Fellow/ | Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University 
Graduate School of Journalism
mike.ananny.org <http://mike.ananny.org> | ananny at usc.edu 
<mailto:ananny at usc.edu> | @ananny