[Athena] Invitation à Hypertextes avec Angèle Christin / 17.11.2020 à 17h

[Céline Vaslin <celine.vaslin AT cnrs.fr>]

Bonjour,

Le Centre Internet et Société (CIS) vous invite à son nouveau rendez-vous mensuel, Hypertextes. Lectures du CIS, qui se tient le 3e jeudi du mois à 12h – sauf exceptions – et prend la forme d’une discussion de 45 minutes avec l’auteur·e d’un livre qui fait l’actualité de l’édition dans les domaines des nouvelles technologies, d’Internet et du numérique.

Pour la première, qui aura lieu le mardi 17 novembre 2020 de 17h à 17h45, Angèle Christin (Stanford University) présentera son livre Metrics at Works qui traite de la manière dont les nouvelles technologies ont impacté la production de l’information à partir d’une étude comparée entre la France et les États-Unis.

La discussion se déroulera en français, en visioconférence.

Merci de vous inscrire.

Metrics at Work. Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms

    When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their
    audiences actually liked through algorithmic technologies that
    scrutinize web traffic and activity. How have audience metrics
    changed journalists’ work practices and professional identities? In
    Metrics at Work, Angèle Christin analyzes the ways that journalists
    grapple with audience data in the form of clicks, and how new forms
    of clickbait journalism travel across national borders.
    
    Drawing on four years of fieldwork in web newsrooms in the United
    States and France, including more than one hundred interviews with
    journalists, Christin reveals many similarities among the news
    websites—their editorial goals, technological tools, and even office
    furniture. Yet she uncovers crucial and paradoxical differences in
    how American and French journalists understand audience analytics
    and how these affect the news produced in each country. The book
    shows how distinct cultural forces and journalistic traditions shape
    how journalists make sense of digital metrics.
    
    Contrary to the popular belief that analytics and algorithms are
    globally homogenizing forces, Metrics at Work shows that
    computational technologies can have surprisingly divergent
    ramifications for work and organizations worldwide.

Angèle Christin is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. She studies how algorithms and analytics transform professional values, expertise, and work practices. Her book, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press, 2020) focuses on the case of web journalism, analyzing the growing importance of audience data in web newsrooms in the U.S. and France. Drawing on ethnographic methods, Angèle shows how American and French journalists make sense of traffic numbers in different ways, which in turn has distinct effects on the production of news in the two countries. Angèle is currently a Visiting Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England.

Séances suivantes

    Bernhard Rieder, 17 décembre 2020, 12h à 12h45
        Engines of Order. A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques,
    Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 352 p.

Christophe Masutti, 21 janvier 2021, 12h à 12h45
Affaires privées. Aux sources du capitalisme de surveillance, C&F Éditions, 2020, 475 p.

Bien cordialement,

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