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 that is 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'.
Author(s): Liliana Bounegry, Jonathan Gray
Edition: First
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 479
Tags: Data Science, Data Journalism, Journalism, Mass Communication, Data
Front Matter (pp. 1-4)
Contents (pp. 5-10)
Introduction (pp. 11-24)
1. From Coffee to Colonialism: Data Investigations Into How the Poor Feed the Rich (pp. 27-30)
Raúl Sánchez and Ximena Villagrán
2. Repurposing Census Data to Measure Segregation in the United States (pp. 31-33)
Aaron Williams
3. Multiplying Memories while Discovering Trees in Bogotá (pp. 34-36)
María Isabel Magaña
4. Behind the Numbers: Home Demolitions in Occupied East Jerusalem (pp. 37-40)
Mohammed Haddad
5. Mapping Crash Incidents to Advocate for Road Safety in the Philippines (pp. 41-43)
Aika Rey
6. Tracking Worker Deaths in Turkey (pp. 44-46)
Pınar Dağ
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Assembling Data
7. Building Your Own Data Set: Documenting Knife Crime in the United Kingdom (pp. 49-54)
Caelainn Barr
8. Narrating a Number and Staying With the Trouble of Value (pp. 55-64)
Helen Verran
9. Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Implications for Data Journalism (pp. 65-73)
Tahu Kukutai and Maggie Walter
10. Alternative Data Practices in China (pp. 74-83)
Yolanda Jinxin Ma
11. Making a Database to Document Land Conflicts Across India (pp. 84-86)
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava and Ankur Paliwal
12. Reassembling Public Data in Cuba: Collaborations When Information Is Missing, Outdated or Scarce (pp. 87-90)
Saimi Reyes Carmona, Yudivián Almeida Cruz and Ernesto Guerra
13. Making Data With Readers at La Nación (pp. 91-95)
Flor Coelho
14. Running Surveys for Investigations (pp. 96-100)
Crina-Gabriela Boroş
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Working With Data
15. Data Journalism: What’s Feminism Got to Do With I.T.? (pp. 103-108)
Catherine D’Ignazio
16. Infrastructuring Collaborations Around the Panama and Paradise Papers (pp. 109-115)
Emilia Díaz-Struck, Cécile Schilis-Gallego and Pierre Romera
17. Text as Data: Finding Stories in Text Collections (pp. 116-123)
Barbara Maseda
18. Coding With Data in the Newsroom (pp. 124-127)
Basile Simon
19. Accounting for Methods: Spreadsheets, Scripts and Programming Notebooks (pp. 128-137)
Sam Leon
20. Working Openly in Data Journalism (pp. 138-142)
Natalia Mazotte
21. Making Algorithms Work for Reporting (pp. 143-146)
Jonathan Stray
22. Journalism With Machines?: From Computational Thinking to Distributed Cognition (pp. 147-154)
Eddy Borges-Rey
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Experiencing Data
23. Ways of Doing Data Journalism (pp. 157-161)
Sarah Cohen
24. Data Visualizations: Newsroom Trends and Everyday Engagements (pp. 162-173)
Helen Kennedy, William Allen, Martin Engebretsen, Rosemary Lucy Hill, Andy Kirk and Wibke Weber
25. Sketching With Data (pp. 174-181)
Mona Chalabi and Jonathan Gray
26. The Web as Medium for Data Visualization (pp. 182-192)
Elliot Bentley
27. Four Recent Developments in News Graphics (pp. 193-196)
Gregor Aisch and Lisa Charlotte Rost
28. Searchable Databases as a Journalistic Product (pp. 197-205)
Zara Rahman and Stefan Wehrmeyer
29. Narrating Water Conflict With Data and Interactive Comics (pp. 206-210)
Nelly Luna Amancio
30. Data Journalism Should Focus on People and Stories (pp. 211-216)
Winny de Jong
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Investigating Data, Platforms and Algorithms
31. The Algorithms Beat: Angles and Methods for Investigation (pp. 219-229)
Nicholas Diakopoulos
32. Telling Stories With the Social Web (pp. 230-240)
Lam Thuy Vo
33. Digital Forensics: Repurposing Google Analytics IDs (pp. 241-245)
Richard Rogers
34. Apps and Their Affordances for Data Investigations (pp. 246-256)
Esther Weltevrede
35. Algorithms in the Spotlight: Collaborative Investigations at Der Spiegel (pp. 257-264)
Christina Elmer
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Organizing Data Journalism
36. The #ddj Hashtag on Twitter (pp. 267-273)
Eunice Au and Marc Smith
37. Archiving Data Journalism (pp. 274-278)
Meredith Broussard
38. From The Guardian to Google News Lab: A Decade of Working in Data Journalism (pp. 279-285)
Simon Rogers
39. Data Journalism’s Ties With Civic Tech (pp. 286-290)
Stefan Baack
40. Open-Source Coding Practices in Data Journalism (pp. 291-294)
Ryan Pitts and Lindsay Muscato
41. Data Feudalism: How Platforms Shape Cross-border Investigative Networks (pp. 295-298)
Ştefan Cândea
42. Data-Driven Editorial?: Considerations for Working With Audience Metrics (pp. 299-304)
Caitlin Petre
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Learning Data Journalism Together
43. Data Journalism, Digital Universalism and Innovation in the Periphery (pp. 307-313)
Anita Say Chan
44. The Datafication of Journalism: Strategies for Data-Driven Storytelling and Industry—Academy Collaboration (pp. 314-330)
Damian Radcliffe and Seth C. Lewis
45. Data Journalism by, about and for Marginalized Communities (pp. 331-337)
Eva Constantaras
46. Teaching Data Journalism (pp. 338-343)
Cheryl Phillips
47. Organizing Data Projects With Women and Minorities in Latin America (pp. 344-348)
Eliana A. Vaca Muñoz
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Situating Data Journalism
48. Genealogies of Data Journalism (pp. 351-359)
C. W. Anderson
49. Data-Driven Gold Standards: What the Field Values as Award-Worthy Data Journalism (pp. 360-369)
Wiebke Loosen
50. Beyond Clicks and Shares: How and Why to Measure the Impact of Data Journalism Projects (pp. 370-378)
Lindsay Green-Barber
51. Data Journalism: In Whose Interests? (pp. 379-387)
Mary Lynn Young and Candis Callison
52. Data Journalism With Impact (pp. 388-396)
Paul Bradshaw
53. What Is Data Journalism For?: Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys (pp. 397-404)
Nikki Usher
54. Data Journalism and Digital Liberalism (pp. 405-410)
Dominic Boyer
Index (pp. 411-416)
Back Matter (pp. 417-417)
