Boczkowski, Pablo J.

Digitizing the news : innovation in online newspapers / Pablo J. Boczkowski. - 1st ed - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004. - xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Inside technology .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-237) and index.

Acknowledgments ix

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Emerging Media 1

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Exploring and Settling: Alternatives to Print in the 1980s and the Early
1990s 19

3
Hedging: A Web of Challenges in the Second Half of the 1990s 51

4
Mimetic Originality: The New York Times on the Web's Technology
Section 73

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Vicarious Experiences: HoustonChronicle.com's Virtual Voyager 105

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Distributed Construction: New Jersey Online's Community Connection 141

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"When We Were Print People" 171

Appendix: Research Design 189

Notes 193
Bibliography 211
Series List 239
Index 241

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Electronic newspapers--United States.
Electronic newspapers--Technological innovations--United States.

PN4833 / .B63 2004

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