{"product_id":"journalism-in-the-data-age-paperback","title":"Journalism in the Data Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJingrong Tong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is your guide to understanding what journalism is and could be in an age of digital technology and datafication. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Journalism today is entwined with the digital. Stories can come from crowdsourcing and content farms. They can incorporate data visualisations and virtual reality. Journalists can find themselves working as self-employed digital entrepreneurs or for tech giants like Google and Facebook. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book explores the development of journalism in this era of digital tech, and big and open data. It explores the crucial new developments of \u003cstrong\u003eonline journalism\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003edata journalism\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ecomputational journalism\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eentrepreneurial journalism\u003c\/strong\u003e, and what this means for our understanding of journalism as a profession, and as a part of society. Using a wealth of international case studies, \u003cstrong\u003eJingrong Tong\u003c\/strong\u003e explores contemporary issues such as: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAI, Automated news, 'robot reporters', and algorithmic accountability.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDigital business models, from venture capital to tech start-ups to crowd-funding.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAudiences and dissemination in and age of platform capitalism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eQuestions of censorship, democracy and state control.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDigital challenges to journalistic autonomy and legitimacy. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith clear explanations throughout, \u003cstrong\u003eJournalism in the Data Age\u003c\/strong\u003e introduces you to a range of ideas, debates and key concepts. It is essential reading for all students of journalism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDr Jingrong Tong\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures at the University of Sheffield. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJingrong Tong is Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures at the University of Sheffield. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures at Brunel University London and Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She is also External Examiner for BA (Hons) Communication and Media at Bournemouth University (2018-2022). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe has been working in journalism and news media for 22 years, first as a journalist then as an academic. Her work has appeared in prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as Digital Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Information, Communication \u0026amp; Society and Science Communication. She teaches widely on topics of journalism and digital media and across a range of journalism and media programmes, including undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervising research and doctoral students. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is Associate Editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication and has served on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism and Journalism Studies. She is the author of two books: Investigative Journalism in China: Journalism, Power, and Society (2011 and 2012) and Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China (2015), co-editor of Digital technology and journalism: An International Comparative Perspective (2017), and co-author of Tweeting the Environment #Brexit (2018) and The Brexit referendum on Twitter: A Mixed-Method Computational Analysis (2021). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her research, she uses qualitative research methods such as interviewing and critical discourse analysis as well as computational methods such as social network analysis and topic modelling. Her current research focuses on the impact of digital technology on journalism, social media analysis, political communication and environmental communication, with a particular interest in journalism and news\/social media in the UK and China. She is working on a research project (funded by the British Academy\/Leverhulme) that examines the political discourses and practice of media freedom in the UK since 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452384940269,"sku":"9781526497321","price":154.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/journalism-in-the-data-age-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}