Description: Automating the News : How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, Hardcover by Diakopoulos, Nicholas, ISBN 0674976983, ISBN-13 9780674976986, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of industrial economies, automation has proven one of the biggest news stories of our time. Yet the wide-scale automation of the news itself has largely escaped attention. In this lively exposâe of that rapidly shifting terrain, Nicholas Diakopoulos focuses on the people who tell the stories--increasingly with the help of computer algorithms that are fundamentally changing the creation, dissemination, and reception of the news. Diakopoulos reveals how machine learning and data mining have transformed investigative journalism. Newsbots converse with social media audiences, distributing stories and receiving feedback. Online media has become a platform for A/B testing of content, helping journalists to better understand what moves audiences. Algorithms can even draft certain kinds of stories. These techniques enable media organizations to take advantage of experiments and economies of scale, enhancing the sustainability of the fourth estate. But they also place pressure on editorial decision-making, because they allow journalists to produce more stories, sometimes better ones, but rarely both. Automating the News responds to hype and fears surrounding journalistic algorithms by exploring the human influence embedded in automation. Though the effects of automation are deep, Diakopoulos shows that journalists are at little risk of being displaced. With algorithms at their fingertips, they may work differently and tell different stories than they otherwise would, but their values remain the driving force behind the news. The human-algorithm hybrid thus emerges as the latest embodiment of an age-old tension between commercial imperatives and journalistic
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Book Title: Automating the News : How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Automating the News : How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Social Aspects / General, Digital Media / General, Journalism, Algebra / General, Databases / Data Mining, Information Technology
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Nicholas Diakopoulos
Subject Area: Mathematics, Computers, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
