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Journalism in an era of big data: cases, concepts, and critiques

Unknown Lewis, Seth C. Rouledge (London, 2017) (eng) English 9781138692039 Unknown Unknown JOURNALISM-COMPUTER NETWORK RESOURCES; Unknown This volume thus explores a range of phenomena, from the use of algorithms in the newsroom to the emergence of automated news stories, at the intersection between journalism and the social, computer, and information sciences.
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xii, 149 p. 26 cm. ill.
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Introduction: journalism in an ear of big data: cases, concepts and critiques / Seth C. Lewis --
Clarifying journalism's quantitative turn: a typology for evaluating data journalism, computational journalism, and computer-assisted reporting / Mark Coddington --
Between the unique and the pattern: historical tensions in our understanding of quantitative journalism / C. W. Anderson --
Data-driven revelation? Epistemological tensions in investigative journalism in the age of "big data" / Sylvain Parasie --
From Mr. and Mrs. outlier to central tendencies: computational journalism and crime reporting at the Los Angeles Times / Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida --
Algorithmic accountability: journalistic investigation of computational power structures / Nicholas Diakopoulos --
the robotic reporter: automated journalism and the redefinition of labor, computational forms, and journalistic authority / Matt Carlson --
Waiting for data journalism: a qualitative assessment of the anecdotal take-up of data journalism in French-speaking Belgium / Juliette De Maeyer, Manon Libert, David Domingo, Francois Heinderyckx and Florence Le Cam --
Big data and journalism: epistemology, expertise, economics, and ethics / Seth C. Lewis and Oscar Westlund.

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