data journalism handbook
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blurb
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 data sets, data infrastructures, and data stories in newsrooms, media organizations, start-ups, 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
Introduction – Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru
Doing Issues With Data
- From Cofffee to Colonialism: Data Investigations Into How the Poor Feed the Rich – Raúl Sánchez and Ximena Villagrán
- Repurposing Census Data to Measure Segregation in the United States – Aaron Williams
- Multiplying Memories while Discovering Trees in Bogotá – María Isabel Magaña
- Behind the Numbers: Home Demolitions in Occupied East Jerusalem – Mohammed Haddad
- Mapping Crash Incidents to Advocate for Road Safety in the Philippines – Aika Rey
- Tracking Worker Deaths in Turkey – Pınar Dağ
Assembling Data
- Building Your Own Data Set: Documenting Knife Crime in the United Kingdom – Caelainn Barr
- Narrating a Number and Staying With the Trouble of Value – Helen Verran
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Implications for Data Journalism – Tahu Kukutai and Maggie Walter
- Alternative Data Practices in China – Yolanda Jinxin Ma
- Making a Database to Document Land Conflicts Across India –Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava and Ankur Paliwal
- Reassembling Public Data in Cuba: Collaborations When Information Is Missing, Outdated or Scarce – Saimi Reyes Carmona, Yudivián Almeida Cruz and Ernesto Guerra
- Making Data With Readers at La Nación – Flor Coelho
- Running Surveys for Investigations – Crina-Gabriela Boroş
Working With Data
- Data Journalism: What’s Feminism Got to Do With I.T.? – Catherine D’Ignazio
- Infrastructuring Collaborations Around the Panama and Paradise Papers – Emilia Díaz-Struck, Cécile Schilis-Gallego and Pierre Romera
- Text as Data: Finding Stories in Text Collections – Barbara Maseda
- Coding With Data in the Newsroom – Basile Simon
- Accounting for Methods: Spreadsheets, Scripts and Programming Notebooks – Sam Leon
- Working Openly in Data Journalism –Natalia Mazotte
- Making Algorithms Work for Reporting – Jonathan Stray
- Journalism With Machines? From Computational Thinking to Distributed Cognition – Eddy Borges-Rey
Experiencing Data
- Ways of Doing Data Journalism – Sarah Cohen
- Data Visualizations: Newsroom Trends and Everyday Engagements – Helen Kennedy, William Allen, Martin Engebretsen, Rosemary Lucy Hill, Andy Kirk and Wibke Weber
- Sketching With Data – Mona Chalabi and Jonathan Gray
- The Web as Medium for Data Visualization – Elliot Bentley
- Four Recent Developments in News Graphics – Gregor Aisch and Lisa Charlotte Rost
- Searchable Databases as a Journalistic Product – Zara Rahman and Stefan Wehrmeyer
- Narrating Water Conflict With Data and Interactive Comics – Nelly Luna Amancio
- Data Journalism Should Focus on People and Stories – Winny de Jong
Investigating Data, Platforms and Algorithms
- The Algorithms Beat: Angles and Methods for Investigation – Nicholas Diakopoulos
- Telling Stories With the Social Web – Lam Thuy Vo
- Digital Forensics: Repurposing Google Analytics IDs - Richard Rogers
- Apps and Their Afffordances for Data Investigations – Esther Weltevrede
- Algorithms in the Spotlight: Collaborative Investigations at Der Spiegel – Christina Elmer
Organizing Data Journalism
- The #ddj Hashtag on Twitter – Eunice Au and Marc Smith
- Archiving Data Journalism – Meredith Broussard
- From The Guardian to Google News Lab: A Decade of Working in Data Journalism – Simon Rogers
- Data Journalism’s Ties With Civic Tech – Stefan Baack
- Open-Source Coding Practices in Data Journalism – Ryan Pitts and Lindsay Muscato
- Data Feudalism: How Platforms Shape Cross-border Investigative Networks – Ştefan Cândea
- Data-Driven Editorial? Considerations for Working With Audience Metrics – Caitlin Petre
Learning Data Journalism Together
- Data Journalism, Digital Universalism and Innovation in the Periphery – Anita Say Chan
- The Datafication of Journalism: Strategies for Data-Driven Storytelling and Industry–Academy Collaboration – Damian Radclifffe and Seth C. Lewis
- Data Journalism by, about and for Marginalized Communities – Eva Constantaras
- Teaching Data Journalism – Cheryl Phillips
- Organizing Data Projects With Women and Minorities in Latin America – Eliana A. Vaca Muñoz
Situating Data Journalism
- Genealogies of Data Journalism – C. W. Anderson
- Data-Driven Gold Standards: What the Field Values as Award-Worthy Data Journalism – Wiebke Loosen
- Beyond Clicks and Shares: How and Why to Measure the Impact of Data Journalism Projects – Lindsay Green-Barber
- Data Journalism: In Whose Interests? – Mary Lynn Young and Candis Callison
- Data Journalism With Impact – Paul Bradshaw
- What Is Data Journalism For? Cash, Clicks, and Cut and Trys – Nikki Usher
- Data Journalism and Digital Liberalism – Dominic Boyer
reviews
“This is a stellar collection that spans applied and scholarly perspectives on practices of data journalism, rich with insights into the work of making data tell stories.” - Kate Crawford, New York University
“This stimulating new book offers researchers and journalists alike the welcome chance to reflect critically on how important new uses of quantification are inspiring what has become known as data journalism. The variety of voices, data, and examples are revelatory.” - Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University
“It is now established that data is entangled with politics and embedded in history and society. This bountiful book highlights the crucial role of data journalists as users and critics of data, and in facilitating public engagement and discussion around it.” - Emmanuel Didier, Ecole normale supérieure
“Profound and practical, this sparkling collection engages the topic of data journalism with rich insights into the nature of numbers in the news.” - Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine
“This book is an impressive feat. Bounegru and Gray have put together a truly global and diverse collection that greatly enriches our understanding of the politics of data and what it means for journalism. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, this contribution is more important than ever.” - Lina Dencik, Cardiff University
“Ostensibly focused on data journalism, this handbook is so much more, providing an overarching analysis of much of the emerging field of critical data studies. Journalists and others interested in how to assemble, work with, make sense of, apply, and critically reflect on data and their uses will revel in the extensive theoretical and practical insights.” - Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University
“The Data Journalism Handbook is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and journalists who want to understand how data are translated into information, information in knowledge and, ultimately, wisdom. That itinerary all starts with a full comprehension of how data reflect, construct and shape our social reality.” - José van Dijck, Utrecht University
“The variety, diversity, and depth of the contributions to this collective effort make this book a required reading for beginners and professionals alike.” - Alberto Cairo, University of Miami
“This magical multitudinous book is an experiment that will shape the future of critical data journalism.” - Celia Lury, University of Warwick
“By providing a wealth of living testimonies from practitioners and academics from different countries, this book gives a rich overview of practices that have become key in contemporary journalism. The main virtue of this book is to give a set of practical insights to help journalists not only to better cooperate with their peers but also to establish more fruitful relationships with researchers and publics.” - Sylvain Parasie, Sciences Po
“This wide-ranging and thoughtfully curated volume is an essential companion for researchers and practitioners who seek to rethink what data can mean for themselves and their audiences.” - Yanni A. Loukissas, Georgia Tech
“An intelligent and cutting-edge entry-point to the field of data journalism, sure to become an essential part of curricula and research around this topic.” - Anja Bechmann, Aarhus University