1st Edition

Media Management and Digital Transformation

Edited By Arne L. Bygdås, Stewart Clegg, Aina Hagen Copyright 2019
178 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Media Management and Digital Transformation provides novel and empirically rich insights into the tensions, struggles and innovations of news making and managing in media organizations. From an empirically grounded perspective this book investigates how the 'buzz' of new technology tends to prevent management from seeing which changes are needed and indeed possible to make in the newsroom.... Read more

1. Introduction: Why is innovation needed in organizational media managing?

Stewart Clegg, Aina Landsverk Hagen & Arne L. Bygdås

Part I Ethnographing the newsroom

2. Print and digital: Synchronizing discrepant temporal regimes in the newsroom

Gudrun R. Skjælaaen & Ingrid M. Tolstad

3. From deadline to flowline: Managing paradoxical demands in news organizations through metaphor

Arne L. Bygdås, Aina Landsverk Hagen, Ingrid M. Tolstad & Gudrun R. Skjælaaen

4. Local journalism seen through the numbers: Interpreting metrics through quantitative and qualitative methods

Bente Kalsnes

5. Projects as containers of future hopes and dreams: Organizing innovation projects in the newspaper field

Elena Raviola, Maria Norbäck & Rolf Lundin

Part II Interventions: Changing practices in the newsroom

6. Creating the new while producing the news: Managing media innovation in times of uncertainty

Øyvind Pålshaugen & Aina Landsverk Hagen

7. The Idea Propeller: Managing for collective creativity in newsrooms

Aina Landsverk Hagen & Ingrid M. Tolstad

8. Managing for audience engagement: Taking steps towards a ‘glowline’ co-production in the newsroom

Ingrid M. Tolstad, Aina Landsverk Hagen & Gudrun R. Skjælaaen

9. Challenging digital utopianism: Electronic imaginaries and the second century of radio Christina Dunbar-Hester

Part III Openings & collaborations: Renewing the newsroom

10. Managing journalistic innovation and source security in the age of the weaponized internet

Elizabeth Anne Watkins & C.W. Anderson

11. Teaming up with technology: Socio-material managerial approaches for digital transformation

Gudrun R. Skjælaaen & Arne L. Bygdås

12. Education as innovation: Exploring the synergy of student-journalist collaboration

Ivar John Erdal

13. Context and continuities: A plea for media research in medias res

Øyvind Pålshaugen & Stewart Clegg

Biography

Arne L. Bygdås is Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

Stewart Clegg is Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Aina Landsverk Hagen is Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.