The balancing act of social enterprise: An IT emergence perspective     

《International Journal of Information Management》2021

The significance of IT in the context of non-digital social enterprises (SEs) and its influence on the viability of such SEs have been less studied themes in information systems research. In the era of ubiquitous IT, SEs have increasing pressures to cope with the ever-dynamic technological domain while balancing their dual objectives. Data from a single revelatory case of Jaipur Rugs (JR), an SE situated in a developing country context (India), is used to fathom the peculiarities of the SE context with a focus on the sociomaterial phenomena of IT emergence. Using the three fundamental notions of sociomateriality theory (relationality, performativity, and practice) this interpretive study understands the mechanisms underlying the SE’s attempt to balance its financial and social sustainability objectives. Through the innovative use of IT, the SE establishes and maintains shared value, yielding stability and efficiency to the business (financial viability) while simultaneously ensuring scalability and effectiveness of their social impact. This study strengthens the perspective of IT as an emergent phenomenon situated in sociomaterial practices and fills a gap in organizational literature by examining such phenomenon in the rich context of SEs where achieving the balance between dual goals is increasingly dependent on non-human (IT) agents.  相似文献   

News You Can Use or News That Moves?     

Lauren Kogen 《Journalism Practice》2019,13(1):1-15

This study investigates how journalists covering international humanitarian crises make decisions regarding what types of information to include in stories. Specifically, the inclusion/exclusion of solutions-oriented information is addressed, since crises represent a key time during which the potential for international engagement is discussed in the mainstream media. Interviews with journalists covering hunger crises in Africa reveal an internal tension between maintaining a neutral, unbiased position and writing in a way that supports engagement and action. Ironically, perhaps, journalists find that including solutions-oriented information amounts to unethical and biased coverage, despite the fact that inclusion of solutions to social problems is an accepted and institutionalized aspect of the US news media’s mandate to the public. Reasons for this seeming contradiction are discussed, and I argue that solutions-oriented information not only can be included without demonstrating bias, but that it ought to be included to support ethical coverage that properly informs citizens about potential paths for political engagement.  相似文献   

Solutions Journalism: The Effects of Including Solution Information in News Stories About Social Problems*     

Karen McIntyre 《Journalism Practice》2019,13(8):1029-1033

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Reimagining Newsroom Collaboration: How Two European News Nonprofits Are Inviting Citizens In     

Magda Konieczna 《Journalism Practice》2020,14(5):592-607

ABSTRACT

News nonprofits in the U.S. have been proliferating over 15 years as a way of addressing troubles in the business model for news. For these newsrooms, collaboration, with each other and with mainstream news, has emerged as a key way to build readership and attain relevance in a crowded media space. Still, past research has told us that the strong connection to mainstream news has constrained these organizations’ critique of journalism. In Europe, nonprofit news remains nascent and represents a response to declining trust in and engagement with journalism, and rising populism across the continent. Against this very different context, this study examines two players at the forefront of the European news nonprofit movement. It demonstrates the path dependency inherent in the origins of these organizations: In Europe, they are a response to a different societal change, and thus developed rather differently than did their peers in the United States, with a focus on redefining the idea of collaboration and the role of their audiences by seeing citizens as collaborators, both in the creation and in the dissemination of news. By seeing citizens as collaborators, not just readers, they work to empower and build news audiences as well as participants.  相似文献   

智能化时代传统媒介新闻理念的演进与方法创新     

刘坚 《传媒观察》2020,(5):5-11,F0002

在新闻智能化传播的环境下,传统媒介的新闻信息资源理念发生变化,智能算法成为新闻信息资源获取和开发的重要手段。智能化传播的新闻信息价值判断,建构了新闻事实信息-社会数据信息-用户需求信息三位一体的新闻信息价值确认系统,体现了智能化新闻信息价值理念的特殊追求。新闻信息生产流程中人工智能系统与新闻传播者形成特殊的生产关系,新闻信息生产理念强调人机协作与共处,由此产生新闻报道视野和新闻产品形态的变化。智能化的新闻发布机制,促进了新闻信息的多渠道推送和分散化传播,也有力推动了传统媒介新闻信息传播理念的智能化转变。  相似文献   

Engaged Journalism and News Work: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Organizational Dynamics and Professional Challenges     

Thomas R. Schmidt  Regina G. Lawrence 《Journalism Practice》2020,14(5):518-536

ABSTRACT

Building upon the sociotechnical perspective presented by Lewis and Westlund (2015, “Actors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-media News Work: A Matrix and a Research Agenda.” Digital Journalism 3 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.927986), this study examines organizational dynamics, technological affordances and professional challenges of engaged journalism practices by analyzing how Hearken, one of the most celebrated audience engagement companies, and its tools and services are being implemented in 15 U.S. news organizations. This framework identifies Hearken and organizations like it as important “external actors” providing technological “actants” that are shaping how newsrooms report the news by providing ways for audiences to be brought into producing the news, particularly during the earlier phases of the reporting process. Based on in-depth interviews, we find that nearly every news organization in our sample reports some measure of success by using Hearken for involving audience members throughout the production of news. At the same time, we also identify how this implementation is significantly shaped by organizational imperatives and the models particular organizations create for producing audience-centric news work. Ultimately, this study presents a partial update to the decades-long literature on participatory journalism by suggesting that engaged journalism practices actually create opportunities for meaningful audience involvement.  相似文献   

探究英语体育新闻的词汇特点     

朱计峰 《读与写:教育教学刊》2011,(10):42+59+2

体育是人类社会文化生活不可缺少的组成部分,体育活动和体育比赛已成为日常生活中人们关心的主要话题之一。作为大众了解体育的重要信息来源,体育新闻在新闻报道中的地位也是举足轻重。体育新闻除具有一般新闻的特点外,自身还有着鲜明的语言特色,如大量使用专业术语、缩略词、结构简洁、幽默夸张等。本文围绕体育报道的用词特点,借助实例加以分析、总结,以期帮助读者了解西方英语体育新闻的写作特点,并感受其背后的文化精神与魅力。  相似文献   

从功能翻译理论看英语新闻标题的翻译     

钟敏 《读与写:教育教学刊》2011,(3):198-199,188,5

新闻标题翻译是一个涉及多学科的研究课题,本文以功能翻译理论和传播学为分析框架,论证诺德提出的"功能加忠诚"是指导新闻标题翻译实践的重要原则。译者作为"把关人"之一,有充分的能动性,可以使用直译、意译、增词法、减词法等编译手段翻译英文新闻标题,但必须考虑源语文本作者的目的,以及兼顾新闻受众的需求,尽可能在原文作者、译者和译文读者多边关系中寻求一致。  相似文献   

信息技术教育的现状与展望   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

王国钧  吴孝燕  邵斌 《湖州师范学院学报》2003,25(3):112-116

在对浙江省湖州、嘉兴两市部分中学的信息技术学科教学进行抽样调查的基础上，从课程设置、教材使用、教学设备、师资力量等方面分析了中学信息技术学科教学的现状，并利用统计数字揭示了该学科教学目前存在的问题，最后对该学科教学的发展前景作了进一步的探讨。  相似文献   

试析新闻写作中理论与文体的一种矛盾现象     

杨希波 《德州学院学报》2003,19(1):92-93,102

在新闻写作理论中，关于消息的文体特征，一般都概括为：客观报道，用事实说话。而在讲到消息中的述评性消息时，又将其特征概括为：边叙边议，边述边评。这就形成了理论与文体的矛盾，这种矛盾，不但造成新闻写作理论自身的混乱，同时又使述评消息作为一种文体显得不伦不类。  相似文献