Automating the News - How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Diakopoulos is an expert on computational and data journalism whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and CBC Radio and in The Atlantic , Slate, Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , and Boston Globe . He is Director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) and an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University, and is a Tow Fellow at Columbia University School of Journalism. A consultant specializing in research, design, and development for computational media applications, he cofounded Georgia Tech’s program in Computational Journalism. Klappentext From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists¿and their values¿are at little risk of being replaced. Zusammenfassung From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists—and their values—are at little risk of being replaced.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Diakopoulos, Diakopoulos Nicholas
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780674976986
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97698-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Media Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Technology: general issues, Digital lifestyle, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects