The novel is set on the Isle of Jersey during Queen Elizabeth's reign and revolves around a pair of Huguenot lovers named Michel de la Foret and Angele Aubert who have been forced to flee France. Angele travels with her family to the Island of Jersey to await her lover's arrival. Before his arrival, she is sought in marriage by the Seigneur of Rozel, a kind-hearted man, and when she declines, he tells her he will remain her true friend. The ship carrying Michel to his waiting bride is caught in a storm and wrecked within sight of land and those waiting to greet him.
Michel and Angele, or a Ladder of Swords by Gilbert Parker is the story of Michel de la Foret and Angele Aubert, two Huguenots who flee France and take refuge at the Walloon Church in England. Based on true events, this adventure novel follows their lives on their chaotic and troublesome travels.
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The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news When the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traffic and activity. Has this advent of audience metrics changed journalists’ work practices and professional identities? In Metrics at Work, Angèle Christin documents the ways that journalists grapple with audience data in the form of clicks, and analyzes how new forms of clickbait journalism travel across national borders. Drawing on four years of fieldwork in web newsrooms in the United States and France, including more than one hundred interviews with journalists, Christin reveals many similarities among the media groups examined—their editorial goals, technological tools, and even office furniture. Yet she uncovers crucial and paradoxical differences in how American and French journalists understand audience analytics and how these affect the news produced in each country. American journalists routinely disregard traffic numbers and primarily rely on the opinion of their peers to define journalistic quality. Meanwhile, French journalists fixate on internet traffic and view these numbers as a sign of their resonance in the public sphere. Christin offers cultural and historical explanations for these disparities, arguing that distinct journalistic traditions structure how journalists make sense of digital measurements in the two countries. Contrary to the popular belief that analytics and algorithms are globally homogenizing forces, Metrics at Work shows that computational technologies can have surprisingly divergent ramifications for work and organizations worldwide.
