This dissertation develops a media sociological concept of journalistic authorship. The rise
of digital media technologies, such as search engines, social media, analytics, and natural …

A Companion to Media Authorship “Gray and Johnson have brought together a stellar group
of authors whose works deftly explicate the complexities of negotiating 'authorship'across a …

This chapter provides a multidisciplinary theoretical integration that is required in policy
research. It offers a new comprehensive and consistent policy–an initial framework for …

Currently in media studies we have a rich, well-theorized body of scholarship on journalistic
production and its evolution in the digital era. One gap within this literature is the lack of …

Roland Barthes argues that “all identity”(142) is lost in the act of writing, and that the text
arises through interaction between the reader and the written word. Responding to Barthes …

Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific,
or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the …

The broadening reliance on algorithms to generate news automatically, referred to as
“automated journalism” or “robot journalism”, has significant practical, sociopolitical …

This study explores journalists' discourse on the craft of news writing in order to answer the
question: How is journalistic authority performed in the craft of news writing? Journalistic …

This is an introductory chapter to A Companion to Media Authorship, which talks about the
problem of media authorship. Authorship is about control, power, and the management of …

For a book that takes a relational approach to journalistic authority, it seems fitting to salute
all the relationships that made this work possible. I have had the good fortune to be …