Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice

The Data Journalism Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to data journalism, combining critical reflection and practical insight. It explores the work needed to render technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes, and gives a behind-the-scenes look at the social lives of data sets, infrastructures, and stories in newsrooms, media organizations, start-ups, and civil society organizations.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 418 pages
\n Publication date: 23 March 2021
\n Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
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The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice is a comprehensive and immersive guide to data journalism, blending critical reflection and practical insights. It serves as a textbook and a valuable resource for this emerging field, offering a diverse range of perspectives on data journalism practices worldwide and the broader implications of datafication in the news. Comprising over 50 chapters authored by renowned researchers and practitioners in data journalism, the handbook delves into the necessary efforts to make technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the social lives of data sets, data infrastructures, and data stories within newsrooms, media organizations, start-ups, civil society organizations, and beyond. The book encompasses various sections, including addressing data issues, assembling data, working with data, experiencing data, investigating data, platforms and algorithms, organizing data journalism, learning data journalism together, and situating data journalism within its broader context.

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice is a comprehensive and immersive guide to data journalism, blending critical reflection and practical insights. It serves as a textbook and a valuable resource for this emerging field, offering a diverse range of perspectives on data journalism practices worldwide and the broader implications of datafication in the news. Comprising over 50 chapters authored by renowned researchers and practitioners in data journalism, the handbook delves into the necessary efforts to make technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the social lives of data sets, data infrastructures, and data stories within newsrooms, media organizations, start-ups, civil society organizations, and beyond. The book encompasses various sections, including addressing data issues, assembling data, working with data, experiencing data, investigating data, platforms and algorithms, organizing data journalism, learning data journalism together, and situating data journalism within its broader context.

\n Weight: 644g\n
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9789462989511\n \n