AUDIENCE METRICS IN DIGITAL JOURNALISM: THE CONTESTED MEANING OF ALGORITHMS
Keywords:
digital media, web analytics, audience metrics, algorithms, algorithmic publics, clicks, Chartbeat, newsroom, journalistic field, quantification.Abstract
Using the case of two news websites in New York and Paris, it demonstrates that identical technological tools acquire different meanings in different institutional settings, and it analyses the tension between “editorial” and “click-based” modes of evaluation, as well as bureaucratic and disciplinary models of newsroom management. The article concludes with implications for digital media practice and journalism education in Uzbekistan
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