Journalism, Innovation & Datafication

News media are currently undergoing profound transformations. The impact of social media platforms, together with the ubiquity of mobile communication devices that produce a deluge of data, which in turn are analyzed by algorithms, shape the current news ecosystem and force journalism to adapt to phenomena like algorithmic recommendation systems, metrics, and automated content creation. The course first looanalyzingks into the nature of (big) data before analysing the interplay between platforms, algorithms and news media. The central part of the course discusses four different areas in news media and journalism where datafication occurs: observation, production, distribution, and consumption. The second part of the course focuses on news media innovation, in particular with regard to the way innovations influence the journalistic quality and thus the public in democratic societies.

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