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Statistics and the quest for quality journalism : a study in quantitative reporting / Alessandro Martinisi, Jairo Lugo-Ocando.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martinisi, Alessandro.
- Lugo-Ocando, Jairo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- News agencies--Politics and government.
- News agencies.
- Fake news.
- Press.
- Journalism--Statistical methods.
- Journalism.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Anthem Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1-7
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- What this book is about
- Our rationale
- Definitions of main terms
- Modernity and cybernetics as projects
- Overview of the book
- Chapter 2 Numbers as Information in the Information Society
- Enlightenment, society and information
- Reporting numbers as information
- Political arithmetic and public sphere
- Numbers and public sphere
- Quality in a quantified world
- Quality as a precision tool
- Chapter 3 The Never-Ending Debate on Quality in Journalism
- Ambiguity and convergence
- The problem of measuring
- Manifold dimensions of quality
- Pursuing objectivity and quality
- Scientific methods in journalism
- Chapter 4 Statistics in Journalism Practice and Principle
- Ars conjectandi in journalistic performance
- Statistical agencies as information providers
- Statistics as rhetorical device
- Chapter 5 The Normative Importance of 'Quality' in Journalism
- Information framework
- Philosophical framework
- Quality frameworks and practices
- Information links
- Abstraction levels
- The irrelevance of truth
- Chapter 6 Journalism Meets Statistics in Real Life
- Content analysis
- The problematic sense-making
- Why do they do it?
- Focus groups and audiences
- Authority, accessibility, accuracy
- Q-sort analysis
- Further discussion
- Chapter 7 The Ideology of Statistics in the News
- What is there
- Broader discussion
- Scope for further research
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781785275340
- 1785275348
- Publisher Number:
- 40030514094
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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