1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465618003321

Autore

Stephens Mitchell

Titolo

Beyond news : the future of journalism / / Mitchell Stephens ; cover design, Lisa Hamm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53629-1

Edizione

[Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Columbia Journalism Review Books

Disciplina

070.4

Soggetti

Journalism - History - 21st century

Journalism - Technological innovations

Online journalism

Reporters and reporting

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Quality Journalism Reconsidered -- 1. "Principles, Opinions, Sentiments, And Affections" -- 2. "Yesterday's Doings in All Continents" -- 3. "Circulators of Intelligence Merely" -- 4. "Bye-Bye to the Old 'Who-What-When-Where' " -- 5. "Much as One May Try to Disappear from the Work" -- 6. "The World's Immeasurable Babblement" -- 7. "Shimmering Intellectual Scoops" -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices-fast, abundant, and mostly free-that era is ending. Our best journalists, Mitchell Stephens argues, instead must offer original, challenging perspectives-not just slightly more thorough accounts of widely reported events. His book proposes a new standard: "wisdom journalism," an amalgam of the more rarified forms of reporting-exclusive, enterprising, investigative-and informed, insightful, interpretive, explanatory, even opinionated takes on current events.This book features an original, sometimes critical examination of contemporary journalism, both on- and offline,



and it finds inspiration for a more ambitious and effective understanding of journalism in examples from twenty-first-century articles and blogs, as well as in a selection of outstanding twentieth-century journalism and Benjamin Franklin's eighteenth-century writings. Most attempts to deal with journalism's current crisis emphasize technology. Stephens emphasizes mindsets and the need to rethink what journalism has been and might become.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910765877103321

Autore

Connell Julia

Titolo

Developments in the call centre industry : analysis, changes, and challenges / / edited by John Burgess and Julia Connell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2006

New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-24881-4

1-134-24882-2

1-280-54899-1

9786610548996

0-203-00300-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

Altri autori (Persone)

BurgessJohn (K. John)

ConnellJulia <1956->

Disciplina

381.142

381/.142

658.812

Soggetti

Call centers

Telecommunication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Developments in the call centre sector: An overview; 2. Offshoring call centres: The view from Wall Street; 3. Work organisation and employee relations in Indian call



centres; 4. German call centers between service orientation and efficiency: 'The polyphony of telephony'; 5. A national survey of Korean call centres; 6. Skill and info-service work in Australian call centres; 7. Gender, skills and careers in UK call centres

8. Community unionism in a regional call centre: The organiser's perspective9. Agency and constraint: Call centre managers talk about their work; 10. How 'Taylorised' is call centre work? The sphere of customer practice in Greece; 11. Escaping the electronic birdcage: Workplace strategies in Swedish call centres; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past ten years there has been a massive growth in call centres worldwide. These centres are said to represent the most dynamic growth area in white-collar employment internationally since the mid 1990s. Yet the footloose and global nature of the industry means that jobs will always be susceptible to outsourced operations, ICT developments, public sector subsidization of business restructuring and re-location, and cheaper operations elsewhere. This book conducts a thorough analysis of this modern phenomenon.