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Anderson2011
1. What Aggregators Do:
Discourse, Practice, and
Digital “Things”
C.W. Anderson
College of Staten Island (CUNY)
April 02, 2011
Twitter: @chanders
Website: http://cwanderson.org
2. A Transition Paper
From the study of journalistic authority
To the study of journalistic things
3. The Authority of Journalism
Reporting
Carried out on behalf of “the public”
So, what is “reporting”?
4. Aggregation and “On the
Ground” Reporting …
… Are valorized as different, via public
discourse
but
… Are, in practice, entangled and identical
but
… Are different, when it comes to the universe
of evidence they inhabit (???)
6. Themes in March 2010 Hearing
Valorization of “original reporting”
• Good for democracy
What “original reporting” means is self-evident
Conversations about technology name the
“enemy”:
• aggregation
Aggregation is the enemy in copyright /
economic terms
Aggregators means “Google.”
8. Themes from 2009-2010
Interviews
Aggregation concerned with coordinating the content
flow of non-employees
Immediate immersion on the “digital flood”
Moments of creative happiness overwhelmed by work &
drudgery
Primary skill: news judgment
Aggregation: “the elite”; reporting: “old fogies,” “dying.”
News organizations report and aggregate
Aggregator and Aggregatee
We aggregate the internet.
10. Below Hybridity
What is the dominant realm from which we gather
evidence?
“What we do as aggregators isn’t about journalism. It’s
about making sense of the internet.” Traditional
journalism had “always been about making sense of the
public, and about your local community, but with the
internet, we aggregators need to make sense of this
digital world. It’s why the Huffington Post, for example,
has the guts to call an ‘internet newspaper.’ It’s about
the internet. It isn’t about journalism, at least the way
we’ve always thought of journalism up until now.”
11. So, what are the things we use
to build our journalism?
