Social survey reportage: Context, narrative, and information visualization in early 20th century American journalism

Anderson, C. W.

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“…It was during this period that quantitative “advocacy journalism” first made its appearance, journalism characterized by social surveys which were “explicitly normative and reformist in aim” (Anderson 2017, 86). Efforts on the part of public health advocates to institute reforms in public sanitation and to control the spread of infectious diseases also predate Riis’s seminal work (Foglesong, 1986).…”

Section: The Evolution Of Equity Planning In Theory and Practicementioning

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In Pursuit of a Twenty-first Century Just City

Reece

2018

Journal of Planning Literature

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A reexamination of the role of equity in planning is critical at this contentious period in US history. Racism and anti-immigrant sentiments have arisen in our public policy debates, cities have again experienced riots, and inequality has grown. Equity has long been a center of tension throughout planning history, and the field has struggled to balance activism and technocratic expertise. This article provides a literature review to inform and explore how planners can engage equity in this current contentious time period.

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Section: The Evolution Of Equity Planning In Theory and Practicementioning

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In Pursuit of a Twenty-first Century Just City

Reece

2018

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…Journalists’ use of quantitative data has ebbed and flowed across changing routines and cultural contexts (Anderson, 2017), but as a form of knowledge, data sets generally fit well with normative ideas about objectivity in Anglo-American journalism. US political thinker and journalist Walter Lippmann, concerned about inadequacies of the ‘pictures’ of the world in citizens’ minds, called on journalists to use data from official experts (Schudson, 2010).…”

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“…The eager use of data is not new to journalism (Anderson, 2017). But the recent enthusiasm over ‘big data’ in journalism suggests now is a good time to look critically at the logic that underlies the production of data.…”

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All forest, no trees? Data journalism and the construction of abstract categories

Lowrey

Hou

2018

Journalism

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This study takes a sociology of quantification approach in exploring the impact of ‘commensurative’ processes in data journalism, in which distinct incidents and entities are rendered similar, aggregated, and shaped into elaborate abstract constructs. This literature emphasizes the political-economic contexts of data production and predicts a heavy reliance on government data, use of national over local data, and a tendency to take data categories for granted, with inconsistent scrutiny. A content analysis of data journalism projects at legacy and non-legacy outlets reveals some support for the expectations from this literature. Findings show an increasing tendency to portray events as abstract metrics and decreasing attention to personal, lived anecdotes. Findings also show a growing tendency to provide indeterminate data sources and limited overt and accessible evidence of data scrutiny. We also see a higher percentage of national-level sourcing than local sourcing across all years, and a decline in government sourcing coupled with a rise in self-gathered, crowdsourced data online. Legacy outlets were more likely than non-legacy outlets to use local data sources, to provide anecdotal reporting in connection with the data presentation, and to use government data sources. Non-legacy outlets were more likely to produce complex abstract metrics.

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“…The use of public opinion data in news coverage of American politics has a long history, dating back to the "social survey movement" of the early 20th Century (Anderson, 2017) and popularized by George Gallup and Elmo Roper in the 1930s and 1940s (see Converse, 1987Herbst, 1993;and Igo, 2008). Its modern incarnation is often traced to the "precision journalism" movement of the 1960s and 1970s (Meyer, 2002(Meyer, [1973), which sought to harness contemporary social science methods for more penetrating and accurate reporting on social phenomenon.…”

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The ‘Nate Silver effect’ on political journalism: Gatecrashers, gatekeepers, and changing newsroom practices around coverage of public opinion polls

Toff

2017

Journalism

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This article presents findings from 41 in-depth interviews with political journalists, media analysts, and public opinion pollsters in the U.S. These interviews document several trends in how journalists assess and cover public opinion. The article shows (1) a growing interest in and reliance on polling aggregator websites fueled by demands for precise predictions; (2) the erosion of news organizations' abilities to assert independent gatekeeping standards around individual poll results; (3) concerns about the level of inhouse expertise within newsrooms to adjudicate between surveys; and (4) changing attitudes about the importance of gatekeeping around public opinion data. These findings reflect an increasingly complex landscape of opinion data, which conventional news organizations appear ill-equipped to navigate.

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Social survey reportage: Context, narrative, and information visualization in early 20th century American journalism

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Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

In Pursuit of a Twenty-first Century Just City

In Pursuit of a Twenty-first Century Just City

All forest, no trees? Data journalism and the construction of abstract categories

The ‘Nate Silver effect’ on political journalism: Gatecrashers, gatekeepers, and changing newsroom practices around coverage of public opinion polls

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