News and the Net/Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of Journalism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gunter, Barry (2003). News and Net. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 224. Kawamoto, K. (2003). Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and Changing Horizons of Journalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 208. Online publishing presents an opportunity that simultaneously enthuses and befuddles journalists, researchers, and audiences. The term itself, and others associated with it, like digital journalism, online journalism, or blogging, is broad enough to generate definitional uncertainty and spark excitement about democratizing potential of information technologies. Kevin Kawamoto, in an edited collection of essays, and Barrie Gunter, in a volume on news and Net, present several issues of concern to both producers and users of online news. Early in Digital Journalism, Kawamoto acknowledges difficulty in defining a concept that means things to different people, and defines digital journalism as the use of digital technologies to research, produce, and deliver (or make accessible) news and information to an increasingly computer-literate audience. This definition is inclusive of both breadth and limitations of digital journalism, in that it presents an information channel of immense versatility and promise that is mostly employed by a tech-savvy minority with access to high-speed Internet. It also allows Kawamoto to present a comprehensive perspective on online journalism, by covering history of online journalism, meanings and implications of convergence, new media and crisis coverage, digital photojournalism, satellite technology and digital news, activist online journalism, government and e-journalism, and alternatives to traditional journalism online. Moreover, topic of online community resurfaces through all issues, since it is challenging to discuss promise of online news services without engaging a discussion of communities that produce, consume, and circulate online coverage. This overlap between research matters of online community and journalism prompts question of whether these two could be viewed separately, and whether they in fact should be treated as distinct research matters. Not only are historical courses of online community and online journalism parallel, they frequently cover same territory of U.S. Internet development, tendencies, and tensions. The extensive scope of this edited volume, along with combination of academic and practitioner contributors, present key assets of Digital Journalism. The collective perspective of noted journalists, photojournalists, and media scholars highlights both theory and practice of online journalism. This text is useful to journalism or broadcast college students with an interest in digital media production, and presents an excellent resource for an introductory or intermediate course in online journalism. The lively tone, use of examples, and current references make this text appealing to both students and fans of online journalism. Specifically, Pavlik's account of online journalism and crisis coverage provides a useful overview of technologies that can be used to provide up-to-date coverage under circumstances of pressure and limited media access, but also addresses ethical questions that arise from exploitation of such inventions, relating to individual privacy and news credibility. In addition, Meyer offers a personal narrative of photojournalist's experience with digital media, which attests to convenience, versatility, and immediacy of digital photography. Gunter, in News and Net, adds a different perspective on use and relevance of online media, while examining utility and consequences of online publishing for journalists, media market, and general public. This work is cognizant of both social and informational promise of Internet, and is contextualized within a growing tradition of research that addresses use and promise of older and newer media. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.027 | 0.034 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".