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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt

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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt - Anderson, C W
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Can journalists use data in order to produce better journalism? In this book, C.W. Anderson traces the genealogy of data journalism and its material and technological underpinnings, arguing that the use of data in news reporting is inevitably intertwined with national politics, the evolution of computable databases, and the history of professional scientific fields. This book shows how the changes in specifically journalistic understandings of evidence can help us think through the current "digital data moment" in ways that ...

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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt 2018, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190492335

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Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt 2018, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190492342

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