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by Sylvain Parasie

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Faced with a full-blown crisis, a growing number of journalists are engaging in seemingly unjournalistic practices such as creating and maintaining databases, handling algorithms, or designing online applications. "Data journalists" claim that these approaches help the profession demonstrate greater objectivity and fulfill its democratic mission. In their view, computational methods enable journalists to better inform their readers, more closely monitor those in power, and offer deeper analysis.

In Computing the News, Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. He traces the history of journalistic hopes for computing technology and contextualizes the surge of data journalism in the twenty-first century. By importing computational techniques and ways of knowing new to journalism, news organizations have come to depend on a broader array of human and nonhuman actors. Parasie draws on extensive fieldwork in the United States and France, including interviews with journalists and data scientists as well as a behind-the-scenes look at several acclaimed projects in both countries. Ultimately, he argues, fulfilling the promise of data journalism requires the renewal of journalistic standards and ethics. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.

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  • Title Computing the News: Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
  • Author Sylvain Parasie
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date 2022-10-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780231199766 / 0231199767
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalistic ethics, Journalism - Data processing
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022009172
  • Dewey Decimal Code 070.402

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Sylvain Parasie is professor of sociology at Sciences Po, mdialab in Paris.

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