An Nguyen, "News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World"
English | ISBN: 1501330357 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1501330357 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
From the quality of the air we breathe to the national leaders we choose, data and statistics are a pervasive feature of daily life and daily news. But how do news, numbers and public opinion interact with each other – and with what impacts on society at large?
Featuring an international roster of established and emerging scholars, this book is the first comprehensive collection of research into the little understood processes underpinning the uses/misuses of statistical information in journalism and their socio-psychological and political effects. Moving beyond the hype around “data journalism,"
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