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SUMMARY:CDCS Colloquium: All the News That's Fit to Click | Annenberg School for Communication
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPetre describes how digital metrics are a powerful but insidious new form of managerial surveillance and discipline. 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. \n[…]
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/cdcs-colloquium-all-the-news-thats-fit-to-click-annenberg-school-for-communication/
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