The data journalism handbook : towards a critical data practice / edited by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bounegru, Liliana.

Contributor:

Bounegru, Liliana, editor.

Grey, Jonathan, 1983- editor.

Series:

Digital Studies

Digital studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Data processing.

Journalism.

Data mining.

Information visualization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news, serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emerging field. With more than 50 chapters from leading researchers and practitioners of data journalism, it explores the work needed to render technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also gives a 'behind the scenes' look at the social lives of datasets, data infrastructures, and data stories in newsrooms, media organizations, startups, civil society organizations and beyond. The book includes sections on 'doing issues with data', 'assembling data', 'working with data', 'experiencing data', 'investigating data, platforms and algorithms', 'organizing data journalism', 'learning data journalism together' and 'situating data journalism'.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Doing Issues With Data

1. From Coffee to Colonialism: Data Investigations Into How the Poor Feed the Rich

2. Repurposing Census Data to Measure Segregation in the United States

3. Multiplying Memories while Discovering Trees in Bogotá

4. Behind the Numbers: Home Demolitions in Occupied East Jerusalem

5. Mapping Crash Incidents to Advocate for Road Safety in the Philippines

6. Tracking Worker Deaths in Turkey

Assembling Data

7. Building Your Own Data Set: Documenting Knife Crime in the United Kingdom

8. Narrating a Number and Staying With the Trouble of Value

9. Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Implications for Data Journalism

10. Alternative Data Practices in China

11. Making a Database to Document Land Conflicts Across India

12. Reassembling Public Data in Cuba: Collaborations When Information Is Missing, Outdated or Scarce

13. Making Data With Readers at La Nación

14. Running Surveys for Investigations

Working With Data

15. Data Journalism: What's Feminism Got to Do With I.T.?

16. Infrastructuring Collaborations Around the Panama and Paradise Papers

17. Text as Data: Finding Stories in Text Collections

18. Coding With Data in the Newsroom

19. Accounting for Methods: Spreadsheets, Scripts and Programming Notebooks

20. Working Openly in Data Journalism

21. Making Algorithms Work for Reporting

22. Journalism With Machines? From Computational Thinking to Distributed Cognition

Experiencing Data

23. Ways of Doing Data Journalism

24. Data Visualizations: Newsroom Trends and Everyday Engagements

25. Sketching With Data

26. The Web as Medium for Data Visualization

27. Four Recent Developments in News Graphics

28. Searchable Databases as a Journalistic Product

29. Narrating Water Conflict With Data and Interactive Comics

30. Data Journalism Should Focus on People and Stories

Investigating Data, Platforms and Algorithms

31. The Algorithms Beat: Angles and Methods for Investigation

32. Telling Stories With the Social Web

33. Digital Forensics: Repurposing Google Analytics IDs

34. Apps and Their Affordances for Data Investigations

35. Algorithms in the Spotlight: Collaborative Investigations at Der Spiegel

Organizing Data Journalism

36. The #ddj Hashtag on Twitter

37. Archiving Data Journalism

38. From The Guardian to Google News Lab: A Decade of Working in Data Journalism

39. Data Journalism's Ties With Civic Tech

40. Open-Source Coding Practices in Data Journalism

41. Data Feudalism: How Platforms Shape Cross-border Investigative Networks

42. Data-Driven Editorial? Considerations for Working With Audience Metrics

Learning Data Journalism Together

43. Data Journalism, Digital Universalism and Innovation in the Periphery

44. The Datafication of Journalism: Strategies for Data-Driven Storytelling and Industry-Academy Collaboration

45. Data Journalism by, about and for Marginalized Communities

46. Teaching Data Journalism

47. Organizing Data Projects With Women and Minorities in Latin America

Situating Data Journalism

48. Genealogies of Data Journalism

49. Data-Driven Gold Standards: What the Field Values as Award-Worthy Data Journalism

50. Beyond Clicks and Shares: How and Why to Measure the Impact of Data Journalism Projects

51. Data Journalism: In Whose Interests?

52. Data Journalism With Impact

53. What Is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys

54. Data Journalism and Digital Liberalism

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-079783-0

1-003-70575-8

1-04-077272-2

90-485-4207-3

9781003705758

OCLC:

1246726294