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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This 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. 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.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Datapublics Beyond the Rise and Fall Narrative - Jannie Møller Hartley, David Mathieu and Jannick Kirk Sørensen Part 1: Agentic Publics 2. Deconstructing the Notion of Algorithmic Control over Datapublics - David Mathieu 3. Counterpublicness and Hybrid Tactics across Physical and Mediated Spaces - Mette Bengtsson and Anna Schjøtt 4. Stratified Public Formation in Mundane Settings - Morten Fischer Sivertsen and Mikkeline Sofie Skjerning Thomsen Part 2: Cultivated Publics 5. Imagining Publics through Emerging Technologies - Jannie Møller Hartley and Anna Schjøtt 6. Personalization Logics and Publics by Design - Jannie Møller Hartley, Anna Schjøtt and Jannick Kirk Sørensen Part 3: Infrastructured Publics 7. Classifying the News: Metadata as Structures of Visibility and Compliance with Tech Standards - Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen 8. Infrastructuring Publics: Datafied Infrastructures of the News Media - Lisa Merete Kristensen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen 9. Conclusion: Datapublics as a Site of Struggles - David Mathieu and Jannie Møller Hartley
