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Computing the News
Faced with a full-blown crisis, a growing number of journalists are engaging in seemingly unjournalistic practices such as creating and maintaining databases, handling algorithms, or designing online applications. “Data journalists” claim that these approaches help the profession demonstrate greater objectivity and fulfill its democratic mission. In their view, computational methods enable journalists to better inform their readers, more closely monitor those in power, and offer deeper analysis. In Computing the News, Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. He traces the...
Democracy’s Detectives
Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Winner of the Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Winner of the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award In democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and private institutions accountable to the public. From firings and resignations to changes in budgets and laws, the impact of this reporting can be significant—but so too are the costs. As newspapers confront shrinking subscriptions and advertising revenue, who is footing the bill for journalists t...
The Science of Bureaucracy
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which the...
Digital Information Ecosystems
Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent employment of bots and artificial intelligence. The book adopts an original and multidisciplinary approach to this topic: combining the science of media economics with the experience of a practicing journalist of a major daily newspaper. The result is an essential guide to the opportunities of the media to respond to a changing global digital landscape. Independent news reporting is vital in the contemporary democracy; the media must itself become a new “smart press”.
Fragile Rights
The French version of this book was the winner of the 2022 Grand Prix de la Protection Sociale. Over the years many disability-related rights have been legally recognized, but how has this changed the everyday lives of people with disabilities? Drawing on biographical interviews collected from individuals with mobility or visual impairments in France, this book analyses the reception of disability policies in the fields of education, employment, social rights and accessibility. It examines to what extent these policies contribute to the realization of associated rights among disabled people. The book demonstrates that the rights associated with disability suffer from major implementation flaws, while shedding light on the very active role of disabled citizens in the realization of their rights.
Être femme et journaliste
En Belgique francophone, les femmes ne représentent qu'un tiers des journalistes titulaires de la carte de presse. Comment expliquer que la féminisation de la profession de journaliste soit si lente dans nos rédactions alors que les femmes sont pourtant majoritaires depuis de nombreuses années dans les formations en journalisme, ainsi que parmi les jeunes qui commencent le métier ? Pourquoi certaines décident-elles de le quitter ? Que signifie être journaliste femme en Belgique francophone aujourd’hui? Ce livre interroge le rôle et la place des femmes journalistes au sein des entreprises médiatiques. Il se fonde sur le croisement de cinq terrains d’enquête sociologique différe...
New Technologies and Branding
Between cases of study, theoretical panorama and practical reflections, this book gives brand leaders the means to defend their brand in a changing environment, where new technologies and manipulation techniques have rendered old defense schemes obsolete. Rather than suggesting a reflection from the point of view of the crisis, the authors deal with the question under another, broader theme: conflict.
Un président élu par les médias ?
Que n’a-t-on dit de l’emprise qu’exerce sur les médias français l’actuel Président de la République ? Ce serait grâce à des réseaux tissés de longue date parmi les patrons de presse et à de subtils jeux d’intimidation/séduction avec les journalistes que le candidat UMP, lors de la campagne présidentielle de 2007, serait parvenu à capter à son profit le jeu médiatique et, par ce biais, à persuader une majorité d’électeurs de le porter à la tête de l’État. La sociologie peut-elle nous aider à démêler ce que ces thèses comportent de vrai ? Elle en est capable assurément, si l’on considère la quantité impressionnante de connaissances qu’elle a accumul...
Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.
The News Gap
When supply and demand don't meet -- The divergence in the content choices of journalists and consumers -- The difference politics makes -- How storytelling matters -- Clicking on what's interesting, emailing what's bizarre or useful, and commenting on what's controversial -- The meaning of the news gap for media and democracy
