Journalism and Data

Tensions and intersections

ISBN: 978-1-138-19287-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borges-Rey, Eddy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Journalism practice in a society driven by data and algorithms Part I: Epistemologies 1. The intersection of journalism and data processing: a historical reflection on journalism and computation 2. Figures vs. databases: the materiality of datafied news objects 3. Seductive data innovations vs. standardised professional practices: the metamorphosis of journalistic performativity 4. Nose for news vs. computational cognition: the shifting reflexivity of news professionals Part II: Power Dynamics 5. Mediated big data rhetorics 6. Journ-O-matic: algorithms and bots in news work 7. Binary muckraking: open data vs. proprietary data vs. inaccessible data 8. Hyper local civic collaboration vs. multinational corporate secrecy: a new challenge for a decaying watchdog? Part III: Hybrids 9. Disruption vs. legacy: the growing adoption of data by professional newsrooms Conclusion: the datafication of journalism vs. the watchdog of a datocratic society

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Eddy Borges-Rey is a lecturer in Journalism Studies at the Division of Communications, Media and Culture of the University of Stirling, UK. Dr Borges-Rey has taught media theory and production, semiotics, and journalism in three different countries, and as a media practitioner he has worked as a music journalist, a television and radio producer, and a media manager in Venezuela and Spain between 1996 and 2010.