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Automating the News : How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media / Nicholas Diakopoulos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674239302
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4/3 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.T34 D53 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE ERA OF NEWS ALGORITHMS -- 1. Hybridization: Combining Algorithms, Automation, and People in Newswork -- 2. Journalistic Data Mining -- 3. Automated Content Production -- 4. Newsbots: Agents of Information -- 5. Digital Paperboys: Algorithms in News Distribution -- 6. Algorithmic Accountability Reporting -- CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF ALGORITHMIC NEWS MEDIA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists—and their values—are at little risk of being replaced.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674239302

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE ERA OF NEWS ALGORITHMS -- 1. Hybridization: Combining Algorithms, Automation, and People in Newswork -- 2. Journalistic Data Mining -- 3. Automated Content Production -- 4. Newsbots: Agents of Information -- 5. Digital Paperboys: Algorithms in News Distribution -- 6. Algorithmic Accountability Reporting -- CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF ALGORITHMIC NEWS MEDIA -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists—and their values—are at little risk of being replaced.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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