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Metrics at Work

Angele Christin

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Mens & Maatschappij
  • ISBN: 9780691234458
Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:25 januari 2022
Aantal pagina's:272
Illustraties:Nee
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Hoofdauteur:Angele Christin
Hoofdauteur:Angele Christin
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Product breedte:156 mm
Product lengte:235 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:156 mm
Verpakking hoogte:235 mm
Verpakking lengte:235 mm
Overige kenmerken
Product breedte:156 mm
Product lengte:235 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:156 mm
Verpakking hoogte:235 mm
Verpakking lengte:235 mm

Samenvatting

The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traffic and activity. Has this advent of audience metrics changed journalists' work practices and professional identities? In Metrics at Work, Angele Christin documents the ways that journalists grapple with audience data in the form of clicks, and analyzes how new forms of clickbait journalism travel across national borders. Drawing on four years of fieldwork in web newsrooms in the United States and France, including more than one hundred interviews with journalists, Christin reveals many similarities among the media groups examined-their editorial goals, technological tools, and even office furniture. Yet she uncovers crucial and paradoxical differences in how American and French journalists understand audience analytics and how these affect the news produced in each country. American journalists routinely disregard traffic numbers and primarily rely on the opinion of their peers to define journalistic quality. Meanwhile, French journalists fixate on internet traffic and view these numbers as a sign of their resonance in the public sphere. Christin offers cultural and historical explanations for these disparities, arguing that distinct journalistic traditions structure how journalists make sense of digital measurements in the two countries. Contrary to the popular belief that analytics and algorithms are globally homogenizing forces, Metrics at Work shows that computational technologies can have surprisingly divergent ramifications for work and organizations worldwide.