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Boundary-Drawing Power and the Renewal of Professional News Organizations: The Case of The Guardian and the Edward Snowden NSA Leak

Chadwick, Andrew and Collister, Simon (2014) Boundary-Drawing Power and the Renewal of Professional News Organizations: The Case of The Guardian and the Edward Snowden NSA Leak. International Journal of Communication, 8. ISSN 1932-8036

Type of Research: Article
Creators: Chadwick, Andrew and Collister, Simon
Description:

The Edward Snowden National Security Agency leak of 2013 was an important punctuating phase in the evolution of political journalism and political communication as media systems continue to adapt to the incursion of digital media logics. The leak's mediation reveals professional news organizations evolving power in an increasingly congested, complex, and polycentric hybrid media system where the number of news actors has radically increased. We identify the practices through which The Guardian reconfigured and renewed its power and which enabled it to lay bare highly significant aspects of state power and surveillance. This involved exercising a form of strategic, if still contingent, control over the information and communication environments within which the Snowden story developed. This was based upon a range of practices encapsulated by a concept we introduce: boundary-drawing power.

Official Website: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2883
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: news, journalism, boundary-drawing power, adaptation, social media, Internet, hybrid media system, privacy, security, surveillance, NSA, Prism
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: USC Annenberg Press, CA.
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > London College of Communication
Date: 31 August 2014
Date Deposited: 22 May 2015 12:51
Last Modified: 22 May 2015 12:51
Item ID: 7954
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/7954

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