A Liminal Press: Situating news app designers within a field of networked news production

Digital Journalism

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 192-208

  Ananny, Mike ^a   Crawford, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

Author keywords

institutions; mobile news apps; networked press; technology design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983020782     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2014.922322     Document Type: Article

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