Cultures of Digital Architectures: Power and Positionalities in the Backend of Online Journalism Production

This essay complicates interpretations of digital architectures in online journalism production terms journalistic interlopers and intralopers during an age increased influence technologists on news development. While much normative scholarship revolves around social media, metrics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, VR, other forms innovation applied to journalism, the argues that such work must not focus merely actions today's tech-savvy but should interrogate cultural relationships at center so as become distracted away from embedded practices ideological incorporation shapes media messages reproduces inequalities through what how covers. In future, we approach a notion Metaverse, scholars long-standing embedding elite ideologies into journalists collaborate with (or technologists), interact (and re-interact) accelerating rates networked societies, move new realms have yet imagined.