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All the news that's fit to click = how metrics are transforming the work of journalists /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	All the news that's fit to click/ Caitlin Petre.
Reminder of title:	how metrics are transforming the work of journalists /
Author:	Petre, Caitlin.
Published:	Princeton, NJ :Princeton University Press, : c2021.,
Description:	1 online resource (277 p.)
Subject:	Web usage mining in journalism - United States. -
Online resource:	https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0008701.html
ISBN:	9780691228754

All the news that's fit to click = how metrics are transforming the work of journalists /
Petre, Caitlin.

All the news that's fit to clickhow metrics are transforming the work of journalists /[electronic resource] :Caitlin Petre. - Princeton, NJ :Princeton University Press,c2021. - 1 online resource (277 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Digital Journalism: Putting the Case in Context -- Part I: Experiencing Metrics -- 2. The Traffic Game -- 3. Enchanted Metrics -- Part II: Making Sense of Metrics -- 4. The Interpretive Ambiguity of Metrics -- 5. Clean and Dirty Data -- Part III: Managing Metrics -- 6. The Struggle to Monopolize Interpretive Labor -- 7. The Autonomy Paradox -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Methods -- Appendix B: A Guide to the Chartbeat Publishing Dashboard -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A Note On The Type.

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Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even which journalists get hired and fired. Do metrics make journalists more accountable to the public? Or are these data tools the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch wielded by a factory boss, worsening newsroom working conditions and journalism quality? In All the News That's Fit to Click, Caitlin Petre takes readers behind the scenes at the New York Times, Gawker, and the prominent news analytics company Chartbeat to explore how performance metrics are transforming the work of journalism. Petre describes how digital metrics are a powerful but insidious new form of managerial surveillance and discipline. Real-time analytics tools are designed to win the trust and loyalty of wary journalists by mimicking key features of addictive games, including immersive displays, instant feedback, and constantly updated "scores" and rankings. Many journalists get hooked on metrics -- and pressure themselves to work ever harder to boost their numbers. Yet this is not a simple story of managerial domination. Contrary to the typical perception of metrics as inevitably disempowering, Petre shows how some journalists leverage metrics to their advantage, using them to advocate for their professional worth and autonomy. An eye-opening account of data-driven journalism, All the News That's Fit to Click is also an important preview of how the metrics revolution may transform other professions.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780691228754Subjects--Topical Terms:

1404364
Web usage mining in journalism
--United States.

LC Class. No.: PN4784.W43

Dewey Class. No.: 070.4/30285

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