Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure: Tracing News Organizations and Programming Publics in Application Programming Interfaces

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 623-642

  Ananny, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

application programming interface; networked online journalism; news organizations; open collaboration; press public infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876194087     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764212469363     Document Type: Article

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