Waiting for Data Journalism

Abstract

Data journalism has emerged as a trend worth of attention in newsrooms the

Unravelling Data Journalism

“…Materiality is not an alien concept to journalism studies, particularly since a current enthusiasm about Latour's Actor-Network Theory has stimulated a line of inquiry concerned with the materiality of data journalism artefacts (See Parasie 2015;De Maeyer et al 2015). Research in this field focuses on the binary complementarity between actors (journalists) and actants (journalism technologies) facilitating the emergence of cybernetic hybrids capable of restructuring news labour (Turner 2005).…”

Hybrids, materiality, and black boxes: Concepts of actor‐network theory in data journalism research

“…Second, technological actants are to be examined whether or not they have an effect on an actor's newswork and how they are embedded within "the entire organizational assemblage of journalists, businesspeople, and technologists" (Lewis & Westlund, 2015, p. 24). Several studies have explored how technological actants affect internal dimensions, the interplay of data tools and practices and epistemologies (De Maeyer, Libert, Domingo, Heinderyckx, & Le Cam, 2015;Fink & Anderson, 2015;Karlsen & Stavelin, 2014;Parasie, 2015;Parasie & Dagiral, 2013); external dimensions via material implications of the outcomes of data-driven newswork, such as visualisations (Appelgren, 2018;Lowrey & Hou, 2018) and a combination of internal/external dimensions (Borges-Rey, 2016;Bucher, 2017).…”

“…Second, the interplay between economics and innovation would examine how resources constrain the adaption of technology. Time, personnel, material, or financial resources have been identified as constraints of data journalism through in a number of studies (Borges-Rey, 2016De Maeyer et al, 2015;Fink & Anderson, 2015;Lowrey & Hou, 2018;Parasie, 2015). Third, by understanding journalism as a field, power struggles (of social, economic, and cultural nature) within the field and interactions amidst other fields could be explored.…”

“…Aside from newsroom-centric ANT-driven studies, other works are intentionally decoupled from institutional spaces to focus on data journalism as a field as "key actors outside of the newsrooms also play a role in the development of data journalism" (De Maeyer et al, 2015, p. 434). De Maeyer et al (2015) explored data journalism through a perspective between discourse and materiality across and outside of newsrooms to "trace the liaisons between humans and non-humans."…”

Twitter and Television in a Hybrid Media System

“…Researchers and journalists today are able to access a huge amount of data (De Maeyer et al 2014;Diakopoulos 2014;Lewis 2014;Parasie 2014), which were unknown and unavailable until recently, thanks to various software programs that have made millions of tweets and various information about Twitter users available. It is now possible to rely on different tools to create a corpus of tweets about politics or other topics (Weller et al 2013).…”