Hello, Please excuse the cross-postings, but I'm excited to share that my new book is shipping: */Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear/* (MIT Press) MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/0262037742 Read introduction for free: https://bit.ly/2A0EFC3 The full description and endorsements are below, but the book essentially asks: * What does press freedom mean today, and why does it matter? * As lines blur between publishers and platforms, how can we think about what the networked press /should/ be? * As news organizations, philanthropists, regulators, and technologists all jockey for power to create the networked press, how do their moves create particular types of press freedom, and publics? * How can a reinterpretation of the First Amendment and press freedom history offer new ways to think about the press freedom journalists and technologists are creating today? I tried to make the book accessible not only to media and technology scholars, but also to students, journalists, policy-makers, philanthropists, technologists, and regulators looking for new ways to think about the press, its freedoms, and journalism's relationships to technology. I'd be extremely grateful if you could please help spread the word, and share with folks you think might be interested.     Many thanks, all the best,     -- Mike. ***** *NETWORKED PRESS FREEDOM* /Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear/ By Mike Ananny MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/0262037742 Read introduction for free: https://bit.ly/2A0EFC3 *Key questions:* * What does press freedom mean today, and why does it matter? * As lines blur between publishers and platforms, how can we think about what the networked press /should/ be? * As news organizations, philanthropists, regulators, and technologists all jockey for power to create the networked press, how do their moves create particular types of press freedom, and publics? * How can a reinterpretation of the First Amendment and press freedom history offer new ways to think about the press freedom journalists and technologists are creating today? *OVERVIEW* In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism discourse about news and technology, he argues that press freedom emerges from social, technological, institutional, and normative forces that vie for power and fight for visions of democratic life. He shows how dominant, historical ideals of professionalized press freedom often mistook journalistic freedom from constraints for the public’s freedom to encounter the rich mix of people and ideas that self-governance requires. Ananny's notion of press freedom ensures not only an individual right to speak, but also a public right to hear. Seeing press freedom as essential for democratic self-governance, Ananny explores what publics need, what kind of free press they should demand, and how today's press freedom emerges from intertwined collections of humans and machines. If someone says, "The public needs a free press," Ananny urges us to ask in response, "What kind of public, what kind of freedom, and what kind of press?" Answering these questions shows what robust, self-governing publics need to demand of technologists and journalists alike. *ABOUT THE AUTHOR* Mike Ananny is Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism in the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California and a Faculty Affiliate in USC’s Science, Technology, and Society initiative and a Fellow with Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. *ENDORSEMENTS* "By interrogating the public's right to hear as a critical complement to speech rights, Networked Press Freedom offers one of the most original accounts of the power and possibilities of journalism. Ananny masterfully blends a wide array of literatures and a textured understanding of the news. The result is a must-read text poised to make a major contribution for decades to come."     --- *Pablo J. Boczkowski*, Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University; coauthor of The News Gap; author of Digitizing the News and News at Work "This book is a brilliant analysis of how to interpret freedom of the press in the age of the real-time social web. At a time when technology companies, press institutions, and the public are mired in confusion as to their rights and roles in preserving democracy, Networked Press Freedom is a beacon of clarity, shedding light and bringing definition to this foggy landscape."     --- *Emily Bell*, Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Journalism School ***** -- *MIKE ANANNY* + /NEW BOOK:/ "Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear" [Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Networked-Press-Freedom-Creating-Infrastructures/dp/0262037742> | MIT Press <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked-press-freedom>] + /Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism/ | Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California + /Faculty Affiliate/ | Science, Technology, and Society, University of Southern California + /Fellow/ | Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism mike.ananny.org <http://mike.ananny.org> | ananny@usc.edu <mailto:ananny@usc.edu> | @ananny