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Statistics and the quest for quality journalism : a study in quantitative reporting /
This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Anthem Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Statistics and the quest for quality journalism : |b a study in quantitative reporting / |c Alessandro Martinisi, Jairo Lugo-Ocando. |
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| 520 | |a This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Fausses nouvelles. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Presse. | |
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