COVID-19 in the Age of Big Data:How US Mainstream News Media Reported on the Pandemic, a Preliminary Case Study Investigation
by James W. Cortada
p. 235-255
Abstract
This article argues that the COVID-19 pandemic caused journalists to present the public with more scientific and statistical information than normal and in the process educated the public on how to collect, interpret, and use such information.
James W. Cortada is a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, where he studies the role of contemporary information. His most recent book is Today’s Facts: Understanding the Current Evolution of Information (2025).
The Conceptualization and Operationalization of “Rural” in IS Research
by Alison Harding
p. 256-279
Abstract
This scoping review of existing information studies (IS) literature related to rural spaces or people aims to answer the research question: In what ways is “rural” conceptualized and/or operationalized in existing IS literature? This study serves to aid in having the disciplines of IS scholarship join those that make up rural studies by illuminating how rurality already manifests in information-related scholarship. The findings relate the nine categories of definitions being used by scholars and call on scholars to be more deliberate in their invocation of rurality in IS work rather than treating it ambivalently.
Alison Harding is a PhD candidate in the College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research examines the intersection of queerness, place-based identity, and information practices in rural settings.
Mobile Work and the Transformation of Journalistic Labor from the Mid-1970s Through the 1990s
by Will Mari and Juliette De Maeyer
p. 280-304
Abstract
This article explores the evolution of a set of portable technologies and tools that were developed between the second half of the 1970s and the end of the 1990s. These technologies catered to the needs of some users and were imagined and marketed toward specific audiences at a particular place and time. Among these users were journalists. They represented a prototypical category of mobile workers who needed and still need not only to be “out there” in the field but also to be able to quickly send work back to the newsroom. Mobile journalism was first conceived of as “portable” journalism and involved a long transition from a suite of analog technologies to digital devices. In this project, we examine that transition to see how it took place and what some of its consequences are for mobile work today.
Postpandemic Organizational Culture: Ensuring Business Efficiency in Remote Work
by Fadi Sakka, Diana Mustafina, Zhanat Khishauyeva, and Sergey Glushkov
p. 305-333
Abstract
This research aims to provide a theoretical and empirical foundation for the phenomenon of organizational culture transformation as an inevitable and logical response of the system to significant changes in business processes. The research outcome confirmed the research hypotheses: Organizational culture transformation is aimed at achieving a sustainable position for the enterprise during significant changes in business processes and contributes to enhancing their efficiency. The most effective organizational changes complement the system of corporate values and traditions of companies. This substantiates the scholarly contribution of the authors to the academic development of issues related to the transformation of organizational culture.
Fadi Sakka is a professor at HR Mark, Dubai, UAE. Diana Mustafina is an associate professor at Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. Zhanat Khishauyeva is an associate professor at Buketov Karagandy University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Sergey Glushkov is an associate professor at First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures Since 1832 by Sebastian Giessmann (review)
James A. Hodges
p. 334-335
The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures Since 1832
by Sebastian Giessmann
MIT PRESS, 2024, 444 PP.
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ISBN: 978-0-262-55074-1
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage, by Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth
Aifang Ma
p. 336-338
Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
by Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024, 102 PP.
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ISBN: 978-1-009-18208-9
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory, by Ian Milligan
Amelia Acker
p. 339-341
by Ian Milligan
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024, 230 PP.
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ISBN: 978-1-421-45013-1
Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law and the Production of the Past, by Maria R. Montalvo
Dana Ellwood
p. 342-343
Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past
by Maria R. Montalvo
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024, 184 PP.
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ISBN: 978-1-421-44946-3
Mainstreaming and Game Journalism, by David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman
Ryan Stanton
p. 344-345
by David B. Nieborg and Maxwell Foxman
MIT PRESS, 2023, 224 PP.
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ISBN: 978-0-262-54628-7
The Switch: and Off and On History of Digital Humans, by Jason Puskar
Peggy Kidwell
p. 346
The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans
by Jason Puskar
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2023, 330 PP.
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ISBN: 978-1-517-91539-1