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Connec&ng Data, Computa&on and Journalism: Liliana Bounegru and Thomas Poell (Research project in progress) The Epistemological Models of The Guardian, The New York Times and ProPublica
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Connec&ngData,Computa&onandJournalism:
LilianaBounegruandThomasPoell(Researchprojectinprogress)
TheEpistemologicalModelsofTheGuardian,TheNewYorkTimesandProPublica
Examples
TheGuardianDatablog
h@p://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/31/europe-unemployment-rate-by-country-eurozone
TheNewYorkTimesInteracOveNewsunit
h@p://london2012.nyOmes.com/
ProPublica’sNewsAppsunit
h@p://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
“Couldcompu+ngtechnology-whichhasplayednosmallpartinthedeclineofthetradi+onalnewsmedia-turnouttobeasaviourofjournalism’swatchdogtradi+on?”(Cohen,Sarah,ChengkaiLi,JunYang,andCongYu.2011."ComputaOonalJournalism:ACalltoArmstoDatabaseResearchers."CIDR2011:148-151)
“Ifthere’sasilverlininginthissitua+on,itistheabilityofcomputerscien+ststostrengthenthehandsoftheremainingprofessionalreportersandengagenewplayersinthewatchdogprocess”(Cohen,Sarah,JamesF.Hamilton,andFredTurner.2011.“ComputaOonaljournalism.”Communica+onsoftheACM54(10):66-71)
Howhavetheserecentdevelopmentsbeendiscussedinacademicliterature?
Flew,T.,Spurgeon,C.,Daniel,A.,&Swic,A.(2012).ThepromiseofcomputaOonaljournalism.Cohen,S.,Li,C.,Yang,J.,&Yu,C.(2011).ComputaOonaljournalism:AcalltoarmstodatabaseresearchersHamilton,J.&TurnerF.(July,2009).Accountabilitythroughalgorithm:DevelopingthefieldofcomputaOonaljournalism.
Howhavetheserecentdevelopmentsbeendiscussedinacademicliterature?
Howaredataandcomputerscienceusedinjournalism?WhatepistemologicalassumpOonsabouttheroleofdata,computerscienceandaudiencesunderliethiswork?
Ourresearch
I.MappingdatajournalismandcomputaOonaljournalismoutsidethenewsroom–thehybridnetworkofacademicandnon-governmentalorganisaOonsII.MappinghowdataandcomputaOonareusedinnewsrooms
Ourapproach
I.MappingdatajournalismandcomputaOonaljournalismoutsidenewsrooms
ComputaOonaljournalismintheacademicspace
Datajournalismandcomputer-assistedreporOngintheNGOspace
II.MappinghowdataandcomputaOonareusedinnewsrooms
Royal,Cindy.2010.“TheJournalistasProgrammer:aCaseStudyoftheNewYorkTimesInteracOveNewsTechnologyDepartment.”PresentedattheInterna+onalSymposiumonOnlineJournalism,AusOn,Texas.Parasie,Sylvain,andEricDagiral.2012.‘‘Data-drivenJournalismandthePublicGood:‘Computer-assisted-reporters’and‘Programmer-journalists’inChicago.’’NewMedia&Society15(6):853-871.
ExisOngresearch
Threecasestudies:• GuardianDatablog• ProPublica’sNewsAppsdivision• NewYorkTimes’InteracOveNewsunit
Method:• In-depthinterviewswithjournalists• Analysisofoutcomesoftheirwork• Analysisofpresscoverageofthesedevelopments
Ourcasestudiesandmethod
“Mostofwhatwedoisthiskindofverynewsy,quickpiecesofdatajournalism,thatarebasedaroundstoriesthatjusthappentobeinthenewsthatday.Everynewsstoryhassomedatabehinditandwe’reheretomakethataccessibleandsurfaceit.”(interviewwithSimonRogers,6September2012)
“WhenwelaunchedtheDatablog,wethoughttheaudienceswouldbedevelopersbuildingapplica+ons.Infact,it’speoplewan+ngtoknowmoreaboutcarbonemissionsorEasternEuropeanimmigra+onorthebreakdownofdeathsinAfghanistan — oreventhenumberof+mestheBeatlesusedtheword‘love’intheirsongs.”(Rogers,Simon.2012.“BehindthescenesatTheGuardianDatablog.”InTheDataJournalismHandbook,editedbyGray,Jonathan,LilianaBounegru,andLucyChambers,34-37.Sebastopol,CA:O'ReillyMedia)
TheGuardianDatablog:‘journalismasasourceofdata’
TheGuardianDatablog:‘journalismasasourceofdata’
“Idon’tseethat[publishingdata]asnecessarilyanactofjournalism.Iseethatasanactoftechnology.And,Ithinkthat’ssortofshirkingresponsibility.Thejournalists’responsibilityisdataanalysis.Italwayshasbeen.Ifallreportersdidwasreporteveryfact,howwouldyoubeabletodis+nguishanimportantfromanunimportantfact?Whatjournalistssayis:‘Thisisnotimportant,andthisis.’Idon’tthinkthere’sanythingwrongwiththat.”(interviewwithAronPilhofer,19September,2012).
TheNewYorkTimesInteracOveNewsunit:‘thedataexperience’
ProPublica’sNewsAppsunit:‘journalismasadataresearchtool’
“Byshowingeachreaderdatathatisspecifictothem,anewsappcanhelpeachreaderunderstandastoryinawaythat’spersonallymeaningfultothem.Itcanhelpareaderunderstandtheirpersonalconnec+ontoabroadna+onalphenomenon,andhelpthemaXachwhattheyknowtowhattheydon’tknow,andtherebyencourageadeepunderstandingofabstractconcepts.”(Klein,S.(2012).NewsappsatProPublica.InJ.Gray,L.Bounegru,&L.Chambers(Eds.),Thedatajournalismhandbook(pp.185-186).Sebastopol,CA:O'ReillyMedia)
AcriOcalexaminaOonofthismuchcelebratedphenomenonisneeded.JournalistsshouldreflectonhowtheintegraOonofdataandcomputaOonaltoolsinnewsproducOonmightimpactthenatureofthestoriestheyaretelling.JournalistsshouldbemorecriOcalandcreaOveinthewaytheysourcethedatatheyusefortheirreportage.
Whatdoesthismeanforjournalism?
h@p://lilianabounegru.org/2014/05/07/list-of-academic-papers-about-data-journalism-and-computaOonal-journalism/
Listofacademicliteratureondatajournalism
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