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All the News That's Fit to Click : How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists /

"Over the past fifteen years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsroom metrics influence which stories are written, how news is promoted, and which journalists get hired and fired. Some argue that metrics he...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Petre, Caitlin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Digital journalism: putting the case in context
  • Part I. Experiencing metrics
  • The traffic game
  • Enchanted metrics
  • Part II. Making sense of metrics
  • The interpretive ambiguity of metrics
  • Clean and dirty data
  • Part III. The struggle to monopolize interpretive labor
  • The autonomy paradox
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: methods
  • Appendix B: A guide to the Chartbeat Publishing Dashboard.