Placing Facebook

Facebook is challenging professional journalism. These challenges were evident in three incidents from 2016: the allegation that Facebook privileged progressive-leaning news on its trending feature; Facebook’s removal of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm Girl” photo from the pages of prominent users; and the proliferation of “fake news” during the US presidential election. Using theoretical concepts from the field of boundary work, this paper examines how The Guardian, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter editorialized Facebook’s role in these three incidents to discursively construct the boundary between the value of professional journalism to democracy and Facebook’s ascendant role in facilitating essential democratic functions. Findings reveal that these publications attempted to define Facebook as a news organization (i.e., include it within the boundaries of journalism) so that they could then criticize the company for not following duties traditionally incumbent upon news organizations (i.e., place it outside the boundaries of journalism). This paper advances scholarship that focuses on both inward and outward conceptions of boundary work, further explores the complex challenge of defining who a journalist is in the face of rapidly changing technological norms, and advances scholarship in the field of media ethics that positions ethical analysis at the institutional level.     

基于双曲等效的双星滑动聚束SAR两步成像算法

双星滑动聚束模式合成孔径雷达(SAR)既保持了双星SAR的灵活性、可靠性和稳定性,同时还可产生高分辨率的图像对,对于观测和测绘具有巨大的潜力.这种模式下需要兼顾双星成像与多普勒带宽显著增加的问题.分析双星滑动聚束SAR系统下目标的多普勒特性,结合双星成像算法与频谱分析法,提出一种基于双曲等效的双星滑动聚束SAR 2步成...