New book out with Bristol University Press
Our newly published book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies.
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The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, opening up new conditions for publics to display agency, mobilize and achieve legitimacy.
This is a seminal contribution to debates about the future of media, journalism and civic practices.
“Drawing on rich and wide-ranging empirical evidence to challenge simplistic accounts of the role of digital technologies in shaping public life, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of democracies.” Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University