大数据时代的新闻学:计算新闻的概念、内涵、意义和实践

Computation as New Objects of Journalism

新闻业的量化转向已经成为当前新闻业发展的一个突出趋势。学界和业界使用了许多不同的名词指称各种与数据、计算、算法、应用、互动等有关的新闻工作。本文在计算新闻的概念下对现有研究进行了梳理,详细阐述了计算新闻的概念、内涵、意义和实践,最后提出了推进计算新闻研究的三个方向。

The quantitatively oriented journalism has become a prominent trend in contemporary journalism. Researchers have used a number of different terms to refer to various news work related to data,computing,algorithms,applications,interactions,and so on. This article summarizes computational journalism as a concept about all kinds of data-related journalism practice,and finally puts forward three paths to promote the future research about computational journalism.