Data journalism and the regeneration of news

Author(s)

• Hermida, Alfred
• Young, Mary (Mary Lynn)

Bibliographic Information

Data journalism and the regeneration of news

Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young

（Disruptions : studies in digital journalism / series editor, Bob Franklin）

Routledge, 2019

• : hbk

Note

Summary: "Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News traces the emergence and flourishing of data journalism through a scholarly lens. It presents evidence of how data journalists are mobilizing discursive, technological and, in well-resourced newsrooms, financial assets, to advance maintenance and regeneration in journalism. The authors base their analysis on three years of in-depth field research in Canada, an example of a mature media system facing decline in for-profit media. They argue that, as a more 'liquid' form of journalism, data journalism has evolved and is evolving with the digitized world of the 21st century. It is a site for the new networks, a blending of journalism, programming and coding, tools and technologies as actants, as well as emergent norms, methods and epistemologies such as collaboration and computational thinking. Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News demonstrates how the multiple crises in journalism have created apertures in long-standing norms and practices for data jo

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Hybrid times
• Data journalism in liquid times
• Strength in numbers
• The materiality of data journalism
• Visualizing the future

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News traces the emergence of data journalism through a scholarly lens. It reveals the growth of data journalism as a subspecialty, cultivated and sustained by an increasing number of professional identities, tools and technologies, educational opportunities and new forms of collaboration and computational thinking. The authors base their analysis on five years of in-depth field research, largely in Canada, an example of a mature media system. The book identifies how data journalism's development is partly due to it being at the center of multiple crises and shocks to journalism, including digitalization, acute mis- and dis-information concerns and increasingly participatory audiences. It highlights how data journalists, particularly in well-resourced newsrooms, are able to address issues of trust and credibility to advance their professional interests. These journalists are operating as institutional entrepreneurs in a field still responding to the disruption effects of digitalization more than 20 years ago. By exploring the ways in which data journalists are strategically working to modernize the way journalists talk about methods and maintain journalism authority, Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News introduces an important new dimension to the study of digital journalism for researchers, students and educators.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: Hybrid Times Chapter 2: Data Journalism in Liquid Times Chapter 3: Strength in Numbers Chapter 4: The Materiality of Data Journalism Chapter 5: Visualizing the Future Chapter 6: Conclusion

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Details

• NCID: BB28769006
• ISBN:
  • 9781138058934
• LCCN: 2018048576
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: [vi], 117 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN4784.E5
  • DC23 : 070.4028/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Journalism -- Data processing
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB26387199