TY - JOUR
AU - Dovbysh, Olga
AB - 972 BOOK REVIEWS Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulus, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019, 336 pp., $29.95, ISBN 9780674976986 Quo Vadis? The Future of Algorithmic Media and Human Agency Algorithm is a new facet of contemporary life affecting a growing number of societal insti- tutions, processes, and practices. In media industry, automated and algorithmic content production and distribution offer new opportunities to increase the speed, scale, accuracy, and personalization of news information. AI-driven tools are not only altering patterns and routines of news production, but also lead to a more structural transformations of what it means to make news, to engage with the audience, and to be an informed citizen (Dorr 2016; Thurman, Lewis, and Kunert 2019). Therefore, in journalism studies, we should not only consider algorithmic touch in media broader than just a new technology, but as an emerging system of tools, practices, values, and ethics, forming augmented media outlets where human intelligence coexists with the artificial intelligence. Automating the news… is one of the first endeavors to summarize the tools and ways of algo- rithmic touch in journalism and bring them to a broader context of “efficient and effective human–computer 
TI - Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media
JF - Digital Journalism
DO - 10.1080/21670811.2020.1777883
DA - 2020-07-10
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/automating-the-news-how-algorithms-are-rewriting-the-media-HAjym24wu5
SP - 972
EP - 974
VL - 8
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -