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News devices Bounegru, Liliana
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Publication date: 2019
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Bounegru, L. (2019). News devices: how digital objects participate in news and research. University of Groningen.
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Propositions
1 A news device approach should regard the digital not only as an object of study but also as a research tool.
2 We should ask how digital devices participate in news work but also how they participate in journalism research.
3 To understand the digital transformations of journalism we should look not only at what digital devices do to journalism but also at what journalism is to digital devices.
4 To understand news and journalism in the digital age we should look not only inside news business and practice but also across the reconfiguration of their relations with other domains.
5 We should not assume that digital devices hold a potential for news research but we should empirically test their capacities.
6 Research with and about the digital can benefit from collaborations with other practitioners engaged in critical investigations of the digital, such as algorithmic accountability reporters.
7 Taking digital devices as an entry point to journalism research does not only offer new sources of data but it also opens up possibilities to develop fresh research questions, angles and concepts.
8 While exploring your data can enrich and complicate, exploring the forest can enrich and clarify.
9 Successful collaborations between researchers and practitioners depend on finding the difference that makes a difference across multiple settings.
10 Fiction marinates conceptual articulation. 11 When in doubt, walk.
