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Here's an idea for a research topic: Comparative quality of news providers in various fields. Take factors like tone neutrality, accuracy, relevance, selection bias, respect of privacy, corruption. My hypothesis is that IT news will be rated as low as celebrity gossip, and categorized as infotainment. The amount of bad journalism out there in the IT press is just unbelievable.
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Here's an idea for a research topic: Comparative quality of news providers in various fields. Take factors like tone neutrality, accuracy, relevance, selection bias, respect of privacy, corruption. My hypothesis is that IT news will be rated as low as celebrity gossip, and categorized as infotainment. The amount of bad journalism out there in the IT press is just unbelievable.
This is indeed a research topic :-) AFAIK, this would require statistical NLU at the very least to be even useful. But is not any "IT news" as in CNet, ZDNet, MSNBC etc infotainment afterall ? You never get IEEE publications or similar quality in "IT news" now. Do you ? So by demonstration, "IT news" *is* infotainment :laugh:
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This is indeed a research topic :-) AFAIK, this would require statistical NLU at the very least to be even useful. But is not any "IT news" as in CNet, ZDNet, MSNBC etc infotainment afterall ? You never get IEEE publications or similar quality in "IT news" now. Do you ? So by demonstration, "IT news" *is* infotainment :laugh:
Scary thought then that infotainment controls the dissemination of information regarding information technology. At least some infotainment companies out there outside of the IT press are careful enough to get the facts right at a minimum.