The Need to Help Journalists with Data and Information Visualization

Reilly, Susan

doi:10.1109/mcg.2017.32

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“…The results demonstrate that the use of visual communication while presenting the story to the intended audience was the highest-ranked skill (mean = 4.04) followed by the ability to “organize the content in a manner that supports the purpose and format of the story” (mean = 3.86). This outcome of their skill set is evident as electronic media reporters mainly focus on the visual communication tools or visualization (Reilly, 2017) of the content instead of other formats of story.…”

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Bonding between information literacy and personal information management practices: a survey of electronic media journalists

Haider

Batool

Malik

et al. 2022

ILS

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Purpose Reporters are considered unique in terms of their information needs and seeking from other groups of masses. As they are running information business, the purpose of the study is to know about their skills of seeking, evaluating and engaging with information effectively and efficiently. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey was conducted with electronic media reporters from 20 news channels to assess their information literacy skills (IL) and personal information management practices (PIM). Findings The results indicated that the study’s participants considered themselves as information literate. They perceived themselves competent and confident in IL skills for the overall scale and on its all sub-dimensions as well. Interestingly, the study findings show that IL skills affect PIM practices positively. However, they were less competent in advanced searching techniques (i.e. use of Boolean logic, truncation etc.) and cloud-based storing tools and applications. Practical implications The study has inferences for information professionals, educators, media owners and other stakeholders. Policymakers in electronic media, particularly media libraries should offer training opportunities by organizing workshops, seminars etc. to enhance their advanced IL as well as PIM skills at workplace. Originality/value Very few studies investigated the IL phenomenon beyond its skills and assessment aspects. The present study uniquely identified impact of IL on PIM practices of working electronic media journalists.

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Bonding between information literacy and personal information management practices: a survey of electronic media journalists

Haider

Batool

Malik

et al. 2022

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“…Another practical significance of this study is that it supported the call for greater crosstraining of communicators in digital and interactive strategies as well as more accessible software programs for data visualization (Reilly, 2017;Weber & Rall, 2012). Reilly (2017) particularly focused on the need for smaller, local news outlets to remain relevant through increased use of data visualization and digitalization of content. This study supports the notion that interactive strategies could help communicators in both rural and urban areas.…”

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“…Interactive infographics have the unique power of engaging the reader in data by pointing out relationships and patterns that would be difficult to explain through text alone (Weber & Rall, 2012). As Reilly (2017) stated, "In a news environment where high story turnover is necessary, the strength of data visualization lies in the viewer's ability to process visual information more rapidly than verbal information" (p. 8).…”

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Interactive Infographics' Effect on Elaboration in Agricultural Communication

Burnett¹,

Holt²,

Borron³

et al. 2019

Journal of Applied Communications

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In public health, politics, and advertising, interactive content spurred increased elaboration from audiences that were otherwise least likely to engage with a message. This study sought to examine interactivity as an agricultural communication strategy through the lens of the Elaboration Likelihood Model. Respondents were randomly assigned a static or interactive data visualization concerning the production of peaches and blueberries in Georgia, then asked to list their thoughts in accordance with Petty and Cacioppo's thought-listing measure. Respondents significantly exhibited higher elaboration with the interactive message as opposed to the static, extending the results of past research in other communication realms to agricultural communication as well. This increase in attitude and cognition encourages agricultural communicators to pursue the use of more interactive elements in their messaging.

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“…A autora traz ainda que os responsáveis por produzir estes conteúdos comumente não tem formação em estatística ou programação, o que dificulta a produção destes conteúdos. Assim como Reilly (2017), acreditamos que o caminho para o melhor desenvolvimento de visualizações de informações passe pela colaboração entre profissionais de áreas distintas. Contudo, defendemos também que o conhecimento estatístico elementar gráfico componha o referencial daqueles que trabalham com a composição visual propriamente dita.…”

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Manipulações estatísticas e anomalias visuais: design de visualização de dados e reconhecimento de vieses estatísticos | Statistical manipulations and visual anomalies: data visualization design and statistical bias recognition

Braga

Silva²,

Souto³

2020

InfoDesign

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O mundo contemporâneo é caracterizado por um amplo volume de informações produzidas. Contudo, proceder a seleção e leitura dessas informações por meio de relatos de pesquisa ou de notícias ainda é um desafio. Entre os obstáculos presentes se destacam os vieses da informação, originados por tratamentos de jornalistas ou pesquisadores, ou mesmo provocados intencionalmente para subverter a representação da realidade a partir dos dados obtidos. Assim, o presente estudo visa discutir a interpretação de informações visuais em representações gráficas de cálculos estatísticos de modo a contextualizar alguns dos principais recursos visuais de enviesamento de pesquisa. Para tanto, aborda os principais modos de enviesamento em pesquisas a partir das representações da estatística e da visualização de dados e identifica alguns passos nos quais o enviesamento se traduz em informações visuais. A partir do levantamento realizado, sugere-se que a compreensão visual dos recursos de visualização de dados pode ao menos instigar a indagação do leitor acerca do possível viés.*****The contemporary world is characterized by a large volume of produced information. However, selecting and reading this information through research reports or news is still a challenge. Among the present obstacles stand out the information bias, originated by treatments of journalists or researchers, or even intentionally provoked to subvert the representation of reality from the obtained data. Thus, the present study aims to discuss the interpretation of visual information in graphical representations of statistical calculations in order to contextualize some of the main visual bias features of research. To this end, it addresses the main modes of search bias from statistical representations and data visualization and identifies some steps in which bias translates into visual information. From the study, it is suggested that the visual understanding of data visualization resources may at least instigate the reader's question about the possible bias.

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The Need to Help Journalists with Data and Information Visualization

Cited by 15 publications

References 1 publication

Bonding between information literacy and personal information management practices: a survey of electronic media journalists

Bonding between information literacy and personal information management practices: a survey of electronic media journalists

Interactive Infographics' Effect on Elaboration in Agricultural Communication

Manipulações estatísticas e anomalias visuais: design de visualização de dados e reconhecimento de vieses estatísticos | Statistical manipulations and visual anomalies: data visualization design and statistical bias recognition

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