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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 15:32

Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia? (ANZCA 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ANZCA 2019 |

ANZCA 2019

Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia?

Mathias Felipe de Lima-Santos, Aljosha Karim Schapals, and Axel Bruns

  • 5 July 2019 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 14:01

Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making? (AoIR 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2019 |

AoIR 2019

Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making?

Aljosha Karim Schapals and Axel Bruns

  • 3 Oct. 2019 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane
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Snurb — Saturday 5 October 2019 14:57

Are News Outlets Deliberately Trolling Us into More Engagement on Facebook?

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | AoIR 2019 |

The next speaker in this AoIR 2019 session is Eddy Hurcombe, whose focus is on the pursuit of social media interactions metrics by Australian news organisations that post deliberately controversial content – in essence, trolling for engagement. This taps into the social media logics that build on the platforms’ governing principles – and these social media logics now also increasingly govern the engagement with and dissemination of news stories.

This is not necessarily a purely Australian phenomenon – other news organisations also deliberately publish controversial content in order to pursue user engagement – we might need to rethink the focus …

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Snurb — Thursday 3 October 2019 09:26

Do Journalists Trust Journalistic Metrics?

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2019 |

It’s Thursday morning, and after the fabulous opening keynote by Bronwyn Carlson last night the AoIR 2019 conference at QUT in Brisbane is now getting started properly. This morning I’m in a panel on metrics in journalism, academia, and music that begins with a paper I’ve been involved in, and which my colleague Aljosha Karim Schapals will present. The slides are here:

Trust in Journalism Metrics from aljosha

Our key question here is whether journalism metrics are trustworthy enough to be used in editorial decision-making. This is part of a larger project on the future of journalism in a post-journalism …

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Snurb — Tuesday 16 July 2019 13:30

A Round-Up of Some Recent Publications

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

Well, it’s mid-year and I’m back from a series of conferences in Europe and elsewhere, so this seems like a good time to take stock and round up some recent publications that may have slipped through the net.

Gatewatching and News Curation

But let’s begin with a reminder that my book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere was published by Peter Lang in 2018 and is now available from Amazon and other book stores. The book is the sequel (not a second edition) to Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and updates the story of …

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Snurb — Friday 12 July 2019 00:52

Towards Social Journalism: Rediscovering the Conversation

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Internet Technologies | Online Publishing | Social Media | IAMCR 2019 |

The very final session at IAMCR 2019 features a keynote by Jeff Jarvis, who begins by describing him self as ‘not as real academic, but just a journalism professor’. His interest here is in looking past mass media, past media, indeed past text, past stories, and past explanations.

We begin, however, with Gutenberg’s (re)invention of the printing press in 1450, and the subsequent invention of the newspaper in 1605 and its gradual industrialisation. But print as a commercial and copyrighted model was perhaps an aberration: Tom Pettitt has written of the Gutenberg parenthesis: a business model which emerged from the …

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Snurb — Thursday 11 July 2019 23:04

The Introduction of Robotic Journalism at the Danish News Agency Ritzau

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | IAMCR 2019 |

The next speaker in this IAMCR 2019 is Marie Falk Eriksen, whose interest is in the introduction of robotic journalism at the Danish news agency Ritzau. Such technologies are now known under a number of terms, and describe an algorithmic process that converts data into news text with limited or no human intervention. What effects this will have on journalistic practices in the longer term remains to be seen.

Ritzau has introduced such robotic journalism tools for its financial reporting: building on predesigned story templates and standardised company earnings data, the tools will generate standard articles that report on the …

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Snurb — Thursday 11 July 2019 19:39

The Transformation of Political Coverage in Turkey under the AKP Regime

Politics | Elections | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2019 |

The fourth presenter in this IAMCR 2019 session is Lemi Baruh, who shifts our focus to election press coverage in Turkey. Turkey has undergone a gradual process of political transformation, with growing government influence on the media, but media in Turkey have often been researched using convenience samples, and short-term studies; the present study addresses this by covering four national election campaigns from 2002 to 2015, and by using newspaper readership data and content analysis for 15 newspapers in the country.

Press-party parallelism theory suggests that commercial media structures often parallel political structures; media partisanship is also a positioning strategy …

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Snurb — Thursday 11 July 2019 19:20

Coverage of Other Countries in Russian Television and Newspapers

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2019 |

The next speaker in this IAMCR 2019 is Anastasia Kazun, who follows on from the previous presentation by focussing specifically on the countries that Russian media cover. Media influence public opinion about countries and their leaders, of course, because ordinary people will not have any direct experience of geopolitics – this is especially important in Russia, in fact, because most Russians have never travelled abroad.

The present study focusses on Russian press, TV, and online media, which tend to have different thematic interests and reporting styles. It studies the mentions of some 193 countries in Russian media, focussing on the …

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Snurb — Thursday 11 July 2019 19:09

Cross-Country News Attention to Countries and Leaders in the G20

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | IAMCR 2019 |

The next speaker in this IAMCR 2019 session is Anton Kazun, whose interest is in the global news flow around the G20 group of countries. International news are important to our perceptions of other countries and their leaders, but state politics, ideology, and news frames will affect this; further, news attention to different countries is never equal. Factors that increase attention to different countries include GDP, population size, and links through common borders, trade, tourism, and migration.

The personalisation of politics in each country also means that attention may be directed especially to a country’s leader, and this is also …

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