Metrics at work : journalism and the contested meaning of algorithms / Angèle Christin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christin, Angèle, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web usage mining in journalism--United States.

Web usage mining in journalism.

Web usage mining in journalism--France.

Journalism--Technological innovations--United States.

Journalism.

Journalism--Technological innovations--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 8 b/w illus. 3 tables.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traffic & activity. Has this advent of audience metrics changed journalists' work practices & professional identities? This book documents the ways that journalists grapple with audience data in the form of clicks, & analyzes how new forms of clickbait journalism travel across national borders. Drawing on four years of fieldwork in web newsrooms in the United States & France, including more than 100 interviews with journalists, the text reveals many similarities among the media groups examined - their editorial goals, technological tools, & even office furniture. Yet the book uncovers crucial & paradoxical differences in how American & French journalists understand audience analytics & how these affect the news produced in each country.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PROLOGUE

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. From Circulation Numbers to Web Analytics

CHAPTER 2. Utopian Beginnings

CHAPTER 3. Entering the Chase for Clicks

CHAPTER 4. The Multiple Meanings of Clicks

CHAPTER 5. The Fast and the Slow

CHAPTER 6. Between Exposure and Unpaid Work

Conclusion

APPENDIX. A Fly on the Screen?

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691200002

0691200009

OCLC:

1128086431