Journalism in the data age (Record no. 65623)
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| fixed length control field | 01597nam a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781526497321 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 070.4 |
| Item number | TON/J |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Tong, Jingrong |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Journalism in the data age |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Sage |
| Year of publication | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 222 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book is your guide to understanding what journalism is and could be in an age of digital technology and datafication.<br/><br/>Journalism today is entwined with the digital. Stories can come from crowdsourcing and content farms. They can incorporate data visualisations and virtual reality. Journalists can find themselves working as self-employed digital entrepreneurs or for tech giants like Google and Facebook.<br/><br/>This book explores the development of journalism in this era of digital tech, and big and open data. It explores the crucial new developments of online journalism, data journalism, computational journalism and entrepreneurial journalism, and what this means for our understanding of journalism as a profession, and as a part of society. Using a wealth of international case studies, Jingrong Tong explores contemporary issues such as:<br/><br/> AI, Automated news, ‘robot reporters’, and algorithmic accountability.<br/> Digital business models, from venture capital to tech start-ups to crowd-funding.<br/> Audiences and dissemination in and age of platform capitalism<br/> Questions of censorship, democracy and state control.<br/> Digital challenges to journalistic autonomy and legitimacy.<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Digital communications |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | information society |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | journalism |
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| Koha item type | BK |
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| Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 25/10/2022 | 29.99 | 070.4 TON/J | 57103 | BK |