Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- UOA34-3776
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780190492342
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the first extended study of the use of quantitative information by American journalists between the years of 1896 and 2016, making it the first academic history of data journalism. It is a genealogical analysis of the manner in which the meaning of numbers and data were understood, reified, and transformed by newsworkers, and the way that these changes reflected larger changes in the structures of American society. It utilizes, in different chapters, archival research, content analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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