Index

Jingrong Tong (The University of Sheffield, UK)

Journalism, Economic Uncertainty and Political Irregularity in the Digital and Data Era

ISBN: 978-1-80043-559-9, eISBN: 978-1-80043-558-2

Publication date: 15 November 2022

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Citation

Tong, J. (2022), "Index", Journalism, Economic Uncertainty and Political Irregularity in the Digital and Data Era, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-558-220221011

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2023 Jingrong Tong


INDEX

Academics
, 15

Adversary
, 83

Advertisers
, 13

decision
, 28

Advertising
, 13

Advertising Standards Authority Ltd. (ASA)
, 26

African newsrooms
, 34

After the Storm’ interactive documentary
, 54

Age
, 13

Airbnb (Economy platform service providers)
, 16

Algorithmisation

algorithmised audience measurement
, 69

of news business
, 44

of society
, 17

Algorithms
, 3, 16, 44, 96

different scenarios of using
, 32–35

for journalism
, 31–32

Alphabet Company
, 56

Amazon
, 6, 16, 19–20, 32, 41, 46, 56

Amazon Video (social media platform)
, 37

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
, 38

promotion video of
, 40

American journalism
, 65

Analytics
, 55

Anglo-American societies
, 8

APIs
, 46

Apple News
, 6, 18

Apple’s iCloud (social media platform)
, 37

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
, 16

technologies
, 33

Audiences
, 58

data
, 22

emotions
, 23

measurements
, 22, 69

participants
, 62

scarcity of audiences attention
, 96

Audio semantic processing
, 40

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
, 54

Authoritarianism
, 89

Auto transcribing
, 45

Automated audience analytics
, 69

Automated tapeless production system
, 32

Automated text analysis
, 45

Banks
, 16, 42, 56

BBC Academy
, 22, 31, 40

@BBCNews (British news media Twitter account)
, 72, 75

Belgian context
, 12

Bias
, 23

Big data
, 40

Big tech companies
, 19–21

BILD
, 66

Bloomberg’s Cyborg Project
, 33

British news media

statistics of tweets
, 74

tabloidisation in tweets
, 72–76

Twitter accounts
, 72

British newspapers
, 65

revenue
, 7

Broadsheets
, 76

BuzzFeed (Digital media companies)
, 13, 19

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
, 87

Celebrities
, 15, 88

Channel 4 organisation
, 42

Chartbeat
, 16

Chicago Tribune, The
, 88

Chinese nationals
, 16

Chinese society
, 16

Clickbaits
, 23, 67

Cloud
, 37

cloud-tag extraction
, 45

services providers
, 41

Cloud computing
, 3, 20, 32, 35–37, 44, 96

adoption by news media
, 37–41

for journalism
, 31–32

potential issues of using cloud computing for journalism
, 41–44

technologies
, 35

Cloud computing service providers (CCSP)
, 42

Cloud model
, 35

broad network access
, 35

measured service
, 36

on-demand self-service
, 35

rapid elasticity
, 36

resource pooling
, 36

CNN
, 42

Commercial companies
, 15, 56

Commercial news media
, 86

Commercial newspapers
, 82

Committee of Advertising Practice Ltd. (CAP)
, 26

Communication channels
, 91

Communities
, 16

Community Cloud
, 37

Competitors
, 19

Computers
, 31, 56

scientists
, 62

tools
, 49, 56

Content management system
, 32

Conventional journalistic methods
, 51

Cookies algorithm
, 21

Copyright infringement
, 43

Corruption
, 23

Cost-per-click (CPC)
, 27

COVID-19
, 1, 89

case
, 4

case study of data journalism during
, 59–62

Community Mobility data
, 56

data
, 61

pandemic
, 1, 9–10, 13, 59, 61

vaccine rollout
, 66

CPS
, 40

Crimes
, 11, 64

Crises
, 54

Crosschecking
, 57

Cross-referencing methods
, 51

Curiosity
, 23

D3. js
, 55

Daily active users (DAUs)
, 20

Daily Mail, The
, 25

Daily Telegraph, The
, 24, 31, 81

@DailyMirror (British news media Twitter account)
, 72–76

Data
, 56

analysts
, 62

analytics
, 6

data-related domains
, 62

era
, 11, 15

journalists
, 57, 59

project managers
, 62

storage
, 35

verification
, 57

visualizations
, 58–59

Data journalism
, 3–4, 50, 59

importance of data journalism
, 52–55

limitations of data journalism
, 55–59

promise and problems of data reporting
, 59–62

rise of
, 49–52

Data Protection Act (2018)
, 87, 90

Data reporting
, 52

skills
, 49

Databases
, 46

Datafication of society
, 17

Defamation Act
, 87

Deliveroo (Economy platform service providers)
, 16

Democratic countries
, 2, 90

Design subjectivity
, 55

Didi (Economy platform service providers)
, 16

Digital advertising
, 24–25

revenues
, 19

Digital audiences
, 21–24

Digital cameras
, 31

Digital chips
, 31

Digital data
, 55

Digital era
, 11, 15

Digital living
, 11

Digital logic
, 66

importance of human interest
, 67–70

tabloidisation boundaries
, 70–72

tabloidisation of online content
, 66–67

Digital media companies
, 13

Digital Media Initiative (DMI)
, 39

Digital technology
, 2–3, 17, 96

Digital transformation of newsrooms, continuity of
, 31–32

Disasters
, 54, 64

Disorientation
, 17

Double-page spread (DPS)
, 28

Dream Term
, 27

Dropbox (social media platform)
, 37, 42

Earthquakes
, 11

Eats (Economy platform service providers)
, 16

eBay
, 16

‘Echo-chamber’ effect
, 33

Economic challenges
, 3

Economic uncertainty era
, 96

Economy platform service providers
, 16

Education
, 6

Elections
, 50, 54

Electricity
, 37

Employed women
, 11

Entertainment companies
, 19

Entrepreneurial journalism
, 19

Excel
, 33, 55

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
, 42

Facebook
, 12, 16–18, 20–22, 28, 37, 50, 56, 66, 72

algorithms
, 32

attention-based ad-charge model
, 28

news feed algorithm
, 14, 22

Facebook Journalism Project
, 21

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
, 88

False news
, 23

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
, 87

FAZ
, 66

Financial crisis
, 52

Financial income
, 71

Financial Times, The
, 27, 39, 60–61, 82

Fitbit
, 15

Flourish
, 55

FOI laws
, 52, 89

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
, 56, 87–88

Funding strategies
, 24–29

Garmin
, 15

Gender
, 13

Gmail
, 37

Good journalists
, 34

Google
, 12, 16–18, 20–22, 28, 32, 41, 46, 56

algorithms
, 32

attention-based ad-charge model
, 28

docs
, 37

news ranking algorithms
, 22

search algorithms
, 46

tools
, 55

Google Ads
, 27

Google News
, 18

Google News Initiative
, 21

Google Trends
, 56

Governments
, 15–16, 92

documents
, 57

officials
, 55

and politicians
, 88–92

surveillance
, 43

Guardian, The
, 19–20, 24–25, 27, 31, 39, 42, 49, 61, 72, 75, 85

Haemorrhaging
, 8

Handy (Economy platform service providers)
, 16

High-profile leaks
, 86

Hong Kong’s FactWire
, 29

HU2 News
, 19

Huffington Post
, 19

Human interest
, 64

importance of
, 67–70

Human Rights Act (1998)
, 87

Human societies
, 9, 83

Hybrid Cloud
, 37

Income
, 13

Independent, The
, 72

Independent journalism start-ups
, 29

Information and communication technologies
, 11, 31

Information industry
, 6

Information processing system
, 46

Infotainment
, 65

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
, 37

Infrastructures
, 44

Instagram
, 37, 50, 66–67

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
, 84

International news media
, 29, 60, 85

International News Media Association (INMA)
, 25

Internet
, 2, 18, 31, 67

competing for internet users attention
, 15

platform
, 83

Interviewing methods
, 45, 51

Interviews
, 15, 53

Inverse Document Frequency (IDF)
, 45

Investigative journalism
, 53

ITVorganisation
, 42

Jabs Army campaign
, 78–79

Journalism
, 15

boom of leaks
, 84–85

confrontations between
, 80

different scenarios of using algorithms for
, 32–35

friends or foes
, 78–84

governments and politicians
, 88–92

implications for
, 44–47

leaks and exposes as threat to national security and privacy
, 85–88

new forms of
, 3

and politicians
, 80

potential issues of using cloud computing for
, 41–44

responses of news media
, 92–94

role in democracy
, 91

start-ups
, 19

transformation of
, 1, 96–97

Journalistic autonomy
, 35

Journalistic interviews
, 57

Journalistic legitimacy
, 71

Journalistic methods
, 53

Journalists
, 55

Latent Dirichlet Allocation analysis (LDA analysis)
, 73

Law
, 81

Leaks, boom of
, 84–85

Legitimacy
, 71

LinkedIn (social media platform)
, 37

Local News Chatter (LNC)
, 45

Lockdowns
, 89

‘Lower-profile politicians’ scandals
, 86

Machine learning
, 40

algorithms
, 41

MailOnline
, 26, 72, 74–76

Market forces
, 35

Material resources
, 17

Measuring audiences website
, 22

Media
, 6

ecosystem
, 22

media-constructed reality
, 61

reports
, 57

MediaHarmony (network file server)
, 39

Medical organisations
, 56

Medicine
, 6, 81

Migrants
, 52

Mirror, The
, 25, 88

Mobiles
, 9, 11

Multimedia departments
, 31

National news media
, 29

National Security and Privacy, leaks and exposes as threat to
, 85–88

Natural Language Generation (NLG)
, 33

Natural language processing (NLP)
, 45

Netflix (Entertainment companies)
, 19, 37

Network infrastructures
, 35

New Statesman
, 24

New York Consumer Privacy Act (NYPA)
, 87

New York Times, The
, 24, 42, 49, 51, 60–61, 80, 82, 85

News aggregators
, 6, 18

algorithms
, 32

News business

collapse of traditional funding models
, 7–9

competing with multiple players for attention
, 18–21

importance peril of attention
, 14–18

new funding strategies
, 24–29

reasons
, 9–14

striving to win over digital audiences
, 21–24

News Corporation
, 18

News Feed algorithm
, 72

News media
, 7, 13, 18–19, 24, 39, 41–42, 49, 58, 61, See also Social media)

adoption of cloud computing by
, 37–41

endeavouring to control
, 88–92

measuring audiences attention
, 22

newsbots
, 34

responses of
, 92–94

News of the World, The
, 88, 90

Newspapers
, 13, 26, 84

Newsrooms
, 31

continuity of digital transformation of
, 31–32

digital transformation
, 4

reliance on tech giants
, 32

NLP techniques
, 45

Non-news content products
, 46

Norway’s NRK
, 31

Objective journalism
, 91

Objective reality
, 61

Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)
, 8

Online content
, 66

Online shopping platforms
, 16

Open-Refine
, 55

Ordinary Internet users
, 19

Outrage
, 23

Panama Papers
, 84, 86

Panama revelations
, 86

Paradise Papers
, 84

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
, 36–37

Platformisation of society
, 17

Political authorities
, 92

Political dynamics
, 3

Political institutions
, 79

Political irregularities

in countries
, 1

era
, 96

Politicians
, 15, 83, 92

governments and
, 88–92

Populism
, 52

Portable devices
, 23

Portable digital devices
, 2

Poverty
, 52

Precision journalism
, 49

Prejudice
, 23

Print departments
, 31

Private Cloud
, 37

Professional fields
, 6

Public Cloud
, 37

Python
, 55

Quality journalism
, 96

Questionnaire surveys
, 15

R software
, 55

Racial discrimination
, 52

Reality
, 61

media-constructed
, 61

objective
, 61

subjective
, 61

Refugees
, 52

Regression analysis
, 33

Reporters Committee
, 92

Responsible journalism
, 81

Retail brands
, 26

Right of Access to Information Act (RTIA)
, 52

Robot reporters
, 33

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
, 2

SAS statistical packages
, 55

Satellite Navigation system
, 32

Satellites
, 31

Saturday Evening Post, The
, 25

Scandals
, 64–65

Scholars
, 8

Search engines
, 56

algorithms
, 32–34

Semantic tagging annotation
, 45

Seoul Broadcasting System
, 49

Server

infrastructures
, 35

server-based content management system
, 40

Sex
, 65

Sheets
, 55

Single Column Centimetre (SCC)
, 28

Sinn Fein party
, 1

‘Sky News’ revenues
, 20

Sleaze
, 65

Small screens
, 10, 50, 62

Smartphones
, 23, 50

Snowden leak
, 86

Snowden revelations
, 85–86

Social Engine Optimisation (SEO)
, 23

Social entities
, 15

Social inequalities
, 23, 52

Social media
, 67

algorithms
, 32–34

companies
, 20, 56, 88

content
, 66

platforms
, 23, 37, 50, 72, 91

Social Media Optimisation (SMO)
, 23

Social platforms
, 16

companies
, 17

Social problems
, 23, 52

Social science methods
, 49

Social systems
, 35

Software as a Service (SaaS)
, 36

Southern Metropolitan Daily, the
, 82, 86

Southern Weekend, the
, 82, 86

Soviet authoritarian system
, 80

Spanish media groups
, 7

Spyware (phone-hacking technology)
, 43

Statistical analysis
, 49

Statistical models
, 33

Steel
, 17

Subjective reality
, 61

Subscription
, 7

Sun, The
, 25, 27, 72, 79, 81

Sun Xiaoguo case
, 82

Sunday Telegraph, The
, 31

Sunday Times, The
, 27

Supermarkets
, 56

@TheSun (British news media Twitter account)
, 72, 74–76

Surveys
, 49

Sveriges Television
, 49

Tableau
, 55

Tablets
, 9, 23, 50

Tabloidisation
, 4

boundaries
, 70–72

concept and existing views
, 64–66

as digital logic
, 66–72

of online content
, 66–67

in tweets of British news media’s twitter handles
, 72–76

Tabloids
, 25–26, 72, 75–76

@DailyMirror
, 74

@Mailonline
, 74

@TheSun
, 74

journalism
, 64

news media
, 65

tweets
, 76

Twitter handles
, 74, 76

Tabula
, 55

Targeted audiences
, 13

Tech giants
, 12, 18, 20–22, 28, 32, 46, 56

Technological advances
, 3

Telegraph, The
, 25–26, 72, 75

Television
, 13

Tencent’s WeChat
, 16

Term Frequency (TF)
, 45

Text extraction
, 45

TikTok
, 20, 66

Time
, 11

costs
, 11

Times, The
, 24–27

Traditional funding models
, 12

collapse of
, 7–9

Traditional journalistic methods
, 45

Traditional news media
, 13

Traditional professions
, 81

Trump presidency
, 3

Tsunamis
, 11

Twitter
, 16, 18, 28, 50, 66–67, 72

cards
, 23

Uber (Economy platform service providers)
, 16, 88

Uber Game
, 58

UK Office for National Statistics (ONS)
, 6n1

UK tabloids
, 88

UK’s privacy laws
, 87

Unemployment
, 13

United States (US)
, 1, 49

Data Protection Compliance and Regulations
, 87

journalism
, 91

newspaper circulation
, 7

Tampa group
, 31

US-based companies
, 88

US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
, 35

US National Security Agency (NSA)
, 84

User-Generated-Content (UGC)
, 18

Vice (Digital media companies)
, 13

Virtual Machine (VM)
, 42

Voice recognition
, 45

Washington Post, The
, 21, 27, 33, 49, 66, 80

Wearing devices
, 15

Web analytics
, 69

Web metrics
, 69

Web–scraping techniques
, 56

Website, The
, 31

Wikileaks
, 84

YouTube
, 16, 18, 37