Visualizing News

The potential of investigative data journalism to reshape professional culture and values. A study of bellwether transnational projects

“…Although there are some outstanding studies available on European audio-visual media (Appelgren & Nygren, 2014;Hannaford, 2015), analyses of data journalism carried out to date mainly examine the field of the western mass media from the perspective of the production work of newspaper companies. These studies are essentially based on the particular characteristics of geographical contexts like the United States (Garrison, 1999;Royal, 2012;Parasie & Dagiral, 2013;Fink & Anderson, 2015), Canada (Hermida & Lynn, 2017), United Kingdom (Knight, 2015;Borges-Rey, 2020), Germany and Switzerland Rall, 2012 and2013), Norway (Karlsen & Stavelin, 2014), Sweden (Nygren & Appelgren, 2013), the Netherlands (Smit, De Haan & Buijs, 2014), Finland (Uskali & Kuutti, 2015), Brazil (Zanchelli & Crucianelli, 2012), Argentina (Aitamurto et al, 2011) and Belgium (De Maeyer et al, 2015).…”

The Visual Citizen in a Digital News Landscape

“…Few scholars would uncritically accept such a prognostication, which only holds if we view the potential of technology absent the politics and subjectivities that give it meaningakin to an instrumental transmission view of communication. As numerous accounts of visual culture recognize (e.g., Mirzoeff, 2015;Mitchell, 2002;Smit, de Haan & Buijs, 2014), and studies of certain class, gender and racial prejudices embedded in new visual technologies so effectively illustrate (e.g., Boulamwini, 2018;Rettberg, 2014), in/visibility is a deeply politicized condition where structural factors underwrite any technologically-inspired appeal towards progress and improvement. "Vision and its effects," as Crary (1992, p. 5) reminds us, "are always inseparable from the possibilities of an observing subject who is both the historical product and the site of certain practices, techniques, institutions, and procedures of subjectification."…”

Unfolding the Decision-Making Dynamics of News Visualization Production in China

“…It displays data through charts, graphs, maps, networks, infographics, and motion graphics. It also allows interactive data exploration and analysis such as filtering, aggregating, searching, and scaling [6]. Therefore, it can help both the journalists and the audiences understand massive and abstract information effectively [4][5].…”

“…Therefore, it can help both the journalists and the audiences understand massive and abstract information effectively [4][5]. This study uses the term "news visualization" to refer to the branch of data journalism that uses data visualization to convey quantitative information to audiences [6].…”