Abstract
Since the early days of the sociology of news work, sociologists have considered news work to be “socially constructed,” “purposive behavior,” “ideological construct,” “ritual behavior,” and a “gatekeeping process.” These scholarly concepts refer to ways that journalists produce news and the factors that affect its production. Early sociology of news work perceived journalism as rational: top‐down (i.e., individual, media routines, organizational, institutional) and influenced by social and cultural factors. News was understood to be a self‐contained profession that was influenced by internal and external forces, and there was little acknowledgment of human agency among news workers, who were working with the forces of news production. Yet, since the emergence of the Internet and the potential for audience members to be involved in news production processes, qualitative sociological accounts of news work see journalism as a complex web of networks. This change in perception poses challenges for scholars who conceive and deploy methodological, conceptual, and practical studies on news work.
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