Aggregating the news : secondhand knowledge and the erosion of journalistic authority / Mark Coddington.
"Amid the torrent of information we receive every day, aggregation of previously reported stories allows readers to streamline, summarize, and process the news. While aggregation in one form or another has been part of journalism since the nineteenth century, it has taken on a new prominence an...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : understanding aggregation in context
- Gathering evidence of evidence : aggregation as second-order newswork
- Making news by managing uncertainty
- Inferiority and identity : aggregators and the journalistic profession
- Clickbait, analytics, and gut feelings : how aggregators understand their audiences
- Atomization and the breakdown (and rebuilding) of news narrative
- Conclusion : aggregation, authority, and uncertainty.