Statistics and the quest for quality journalism : a study in quantitative reporting /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Anthem Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1-7
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- What this book is about
- Our rationale
- Definitions of main terms
- Modernity and cybernetics as projects
- Overview of the book
- Chapter 2 Numbers as Information in the Information Society
- Enlightenment, society and information
- Reporting numbers as information
- Political arithmetic and public sphere
- Numbers and public sphere
- Quality in a quantified world
- Quality as a precision tool
- Chapter 3 The Never-Ending Debate on Quality in Journalism
- Ambiguity and convergence
- The problem of measuring
- Manifold dimensions of quality
- Pursuing objectivity and quality
- Scientific methods in journalism
- Chapter 4 Statistics in Journalism Practice and Principle
- Ars conjectandi in journalistic performance
- Statistical agencies as information providers
- Statistics as rhetorical device
- Chapter 5 The Normative Importance of 'Quality' in Journalism
- Information framework
- Philosophical framework
- Quality frameworks and practices
- Information links
- Abstraction levels
- The irrelevance of truth
- Chapter 6 Journalism Meets Statistics in Real Life
- Content analysis
- The problematic sense-making
- Why do they do it?
- Focus groups and audiences
- Authority, accessibility, accuracy
- Q-sort analysis
- Further discussion
- Chapter 7 The Ideology of Statistics in the News
- What is there
- Broader discussion
- Scope for further research
- Epilogue
- References
- Index