Apostles of certainty : data journalism and the politics of doubt / C. W. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, C. W., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in digital politics.

Oxford studies in digital politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--History--20th century.

Journalism.

Journalism--Objectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Can journalists use data in order to produce better journalism? In this text, C.W. Anderson traces the genealogy of data journalism and its material and technological underpinnings, arguing that the use of data in news reporting is inevitably intertwined with national politics, the evolution of computable databases, and the history of professional scientific fields. This work shows how the changes in specifically journalistic understandings of evidence can help us think through the current 'digital data moment' in ways that go beyond simply journalism.

Contents:

Introduction

The idea of data, documents, and evidence in early 20th century journalism

Journalism interprets, sociology scientizes : boundary work between empirical occupations in the 1920s and beyond

Context, social science, and the birth of precision journalism

Precision becomes data

Databases, stories, databases : narrative, semantics, and computational journalism

Three overview cases : varieties of information in the digital age

Solidarity and uncertainty

Appendix: On objects, objectivity, and method.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-049236-8

0-19-049237-6

0-19-049235-X