All forest, no trees? Data journalism and the construction of abstract categories
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DOI: 10.1177/1464884918767577
Abstract: This study takes a sociology of quantification approach in exploring the impact of ‘commensurative’ processes in data journalism, in which distinct incidents and entities are rendered similar, aggregated, and shaped into elaborate abstract constructs. This… read more here.
Keywords: legacy outlets; journalism; data sources; data journalism ... See more keywords