Apostles of certainty : data journalism and the politics of doubt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, C. W. (Christopher William), 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Oxford studies in digital politics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The idea of data, documents, and evidence in early 20th century journalism
  • Journalism interprets, sociology scientizes : boundary work between empirical occupations in the 1920s and beyond
  • Context, social science, and the birth of precision journalism
  • Precision becomes data
  • Databases, stories, databases : narrative, semantics, and computational journalism
  • Three overview cases : varieties of information in the digital age
  • Solidarity and uncertainty
  • Appendix: On objects, objectivity, and method.