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Battle of the brains: Election-night...

Chinoy, Ira.

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Battle of the brains: Election-night forecasting at the dawn of the computer age.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Battle of the brains: Election-night forecasting at the dawn of the computer age./
作者:	Chinoy, Ira.
面頁冊數:	588 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2273.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
標題:	History, United States. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3409690
ISBN:	9781124073750

Battle of the brains: Election-night forecasting at the dawn of the computer age.
Chinoy, Ira.

Battle of the brains: Election-night forecasting at the dawn of the computer age. - 588 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2273.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

This dissertation examines journalists' early encounters with computers as tools for news reporting, focusing on election-night forecasting in 1952. Although election night 1952 is frequently mentioned in histories of computing and journalism as a quirky but seminal episode, it has received little scholarly attention. This dissertation asks how and why election night and the nascent field of television news became points of entry for computers in news reporting.

ISBN: 9781124073750Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

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