Journalism and Data : Tensions and Intersections (Paperback)

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