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News organizations have already experienced several generations of live broadcasting technologies. Although technologies make live shows much easier, organizing people and tools work together smoothly remains an essential task for broadcasters. This particular study focuses on how the team members of live shows find and solve problems in their daily work. The researcher pressumes that people use the surrounding environment to connect the mind, man-made tools, symbols and the physical environment to solve problems. Intelligent configuration of human and tools is employed not only to server a mediating structure in order to achieve better performance as well as to reduce constraints in live show tasks. Five cases were choosed to illrastrate the essential characteristics of daily operation of news live show. Ethnographic study was adopted in this research. Participatory observation were made. The researcher worked with his team, while collects data in the same time. During the stage of data collection process, texts, audio recordings, photos, hand-drawn sketches or dynamic videos are used to record, supplemented by the content of in-depth interviews. The principle focuses on the significance, diversity and richness of the data. In-depth interviews was made after the observation so that researcher might pick up unsolved pieces of jigsaw puzzles from his co-workers and stake-holders of the cases. The data were integrated after each cases was closed for analysis. The research found that, although the team members of live broadcast are very much experienced, they faced unexpected problems in everyday. Unlike their formal colleagues who relied heavily on operating manuals, they found solutions locally. Many strategies were developed with the contexts. In practice, workers still need to realize their intentions, coupling with resources and equate the existing constraints. Since the contexts of each live broadcast of the project are different from another, problems solving in live news show is much more a task of improvisation.
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