Affiliation:
1. School of Journalism and Mass Communication UW-Madison, WI 53706, USA
Abstract
Abstract
This article conducts a discursive interface analysis of World Fixer, the most visible online platform currently connecting foreign correspondents with local news workers who can help them translate interviews, navigate unfamiliar places, and stay safe in the field. Placing Johanna Drucker’s theory of the digital interface into conversation with the critical frameworks found in global communication studies, anti-colonial theory, and anti-racist communication scholarship, the goal is to illuminate both the opportunities that the World Fixer site provides its users, as well as the inequalities that the website still perpetuates.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Computer Science Applications,Communication,Cultural Studies