The cultural capital you need to work with automated news: Not only “your beautiful piece of work”, but also “patterns that emerge”
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud,
Alessio Cornia
Abstract:This article sheds light on the emerging forms of cultural capital that media practitioners need to acquire to work with automated news, as in Bourdieu’s understanding of unique abilities that include, among others, journalistic expertise and technical know-how. To uncover these new skills, we carried out 30 interviews with editorial staff, executives and technologists working at 23 media organisations based in Europe, North America and Australia. We show that these new forms of cultural capital are essentiall… Show more
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