Automating the news : how algorithms are rewriting the media / Nicholas Diakopoulos.
Automating the news : how algorithms are rewriting the media / Nicholas Diakopoulos.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/3202
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English
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322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction: The era of new algorithms -- Hybridization: combining algorithms, automation, and people in newswork -- Journalistic data mining -- Automated content production -- Newsbots: agents of information -- Digital paperboys: algorithms in news distribution -- Algorithmic accountability report...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2019.
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Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of industrial economies, automation has proven one of the biggest news stories of our time. Yet the wide-scale automation of the news itself has largely escaped attention. In this lively exposé of that rapidly shifting terrain, Nicholas Diakopoulos focuses on the people who tell the storie...
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Automating the news : how algorithms are rewriting the media / Nicholas Diakopoulos.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/3202
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74VKVxjrOkOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVxjrOkOM
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0674976983 hardcover alkaline paper
9780674976986 hardcover alkaline paper
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070.43
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991024249807702626