[Commlist] New book: Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News

New book announcement:

DATA JOURNALISM AND THE REGENERATION OF NEWS
by Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young

AVAILABLE FROM:
https://www.crcpress.com/Data-Journalism-and-the-Regeneration-of-News/Hermida-Young/p/book/9781138058934
Use code FLR40 at checkout for a 20% discount


About the book:
"Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News" traces the emergence of 
data journalism through a scholarly lens. It reveals the growth of data 
journalism as a subspecialty, cultivated and sustained by an increasing 
number of professional identities, tools and technologies, educational 
opportunities and new forms of collaboration and computational thinking.

The authors base their analysis on five years of in-depth field 
research, largely in Canada, an example of a mature media system. The 
book identifies how data journalism’s development is partly due to it 
being at the center of multiple crises and shocks to journalism, 
including digitalization, acute mis- and dis-information concerns and 
increasingly participatory audiences. It highlights how data 
journalists, particularly in well-resourced newsrooms, are able to 
address issues of trust and credibility to advance their professional 
interests. These journalists are operating as institutional 
entrepreneurs in a field still responding to the disruption effects of 
digitalization more than 20 years ago.

By exploring the ways in which data journalists are strategically 
working to modernize the way journalists talk about methods and maintain 
journalism authority, "Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News" 
introduces an important new dimension to the study of digital journalism 
for researchers, students and educators.


Authors’ bios:

Alfred Hermida, PhD, is an award-winning author, media scholar and 
digital news pioneer. A journalism professor at the University of 
British Columbia, co-founder and board member of The Conversation 
Canada, and formerly a BBC journalist, his research explores media 
innovation, social media and data journalism.

Mary Lynn Young, PhD, is a journalism professor at the University of 
British Columbia, and co-founder and board member of The Conversation 
Canada. Formerly a journalist and academic administrator, her research 
interests include gender, newsroom sociology, data journalism, media 
start-ups and representations of crime.

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