Data Visualization in Online Journalism and Its Implications for the Production Process

Weber, Wibke; Rall, Hannes

doi:10.1109/iv.2012.65

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“…Research into the challenges and factors at play when journalists and programmers cooperate indicates that knowledge exchange and collaboration generate new insights (Kavanagh & Cokley, 2011;Newell, 2013;Weber & Rall, 2012). Although the two student groups in Kavanagh and Cokley's project 'retained their separate identities ' (2011: 18), the students received an awareness of and identified 'the contribution of the other students ' (2011: 17).…”

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Exploring Journalism and Computer Science Student Collaboration

Frey

Olsen

2019

Nordicom Review

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The digitalization of journalism has resulted in an increased overlap between technology and journalism in the newsroom. This development has profound implications for journalism education. The present study investigates a team-based experiential learning project between journalism and computer science students in a digital feature journalism course. Using the concept of trading zones as our analytical lens, we explore the students’ thoughts and opinions regarding professional roles and boundaries as well as areas of tension and spaces of mutual understanding in the collaborative context. Using mixed methods and data from questionnaires, observations and semi-structured interviews, the study demonstrates how trading zones between journalism and computer science students varied from homogenous collaboration to heterogeneous coercion, with diverse experiences of collaboration, coordination and collapse.

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“…In a similar vein, Angus and Doherty (2015) state that despite many challenges, interdisciplinarity was achieved in their student project. Weber and Rall (2012) point out that the key element to better interdisciplinary production is the attitude that every 'team member acts as a journalist' (Weber & Rall, 2012: 354).…”

Section: Trading Zonesmentioning

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Exploring Journalism and Computer Science Student Collaboration

Frey

Olsen

2019

Nordicom Review

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“…Second, writing has, through calligraphy, typography, and layout, always included paraverbal and nonverbal aspects (e.g., Ludwig 2005). Third, written texts have long been illustrated with drawings, figures, and, more recently, info-graphics (e.g., Knox 2009;Weber and Rall 2012).…”

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13 Beyond single modes and media: Writing as an ongoing multimodal text production

Hicks¹,

Perrin²

2014

Handbook of Writing and Text Production

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In this chapter, we focus on new, hybrid forms of text production and their research. We start from the practical example of Wikipedia, and the ways in which articles are developed quickly and then refined over time by Wikipedians (Part 1). This approach illustrates transitions from a narrow to a broader orientation in writing research (2). We then develop a framework for the state-of-the-art analysis of writing as a focused and incidental, by-the-way activity of producing editable and storable multimodal communication offers (3). Within this framework, challenges for and controversial issues of contemporary writing research can be identified (4). This allows us to outline what such research can contribute to Applied Linguistics (5) and to sketch a related research roadmap (6). Finally, in the reference section, we list key publications that explain writing research beyond single modes and media (7). From focused writing to writing-by-the-wayintroductory exampleIntentional, organized, and efficient writing has long been a key competence of academic and professional life: people sit down at their desk or another comfortable space in order to write a good text. They use pen and paper, a typewriter or a computer, and start with a draft. Then, they edit their text until they consider it complete. Finally, they send it off or publish it as a carefully designed piece. Unlike speech, it is decoupled from traces of fighting with thoughts and words -a close-to-perfect communicational offer. For the purposes of our argument, this conventional way of producing texts can be termed focused writing, a type of production that takes place over some span of time and with some degree of revision. Whether it is an email that takes just a minute, or a book that takes a lifetime, any type of focused writing still involves a recursive process. The final products of focused writing -essays, reports, letters, stories, poems, blog posts, books, and more -remain the currency of highquality composition for school, work, and the community. Digitalization, mediatization, and glocalization (Khondker 2004), however, are increasing the necessity to communicate with writing in new, hybrid forms. These forms transgress traditional boundaries between speech and text -often incorporating audio, video, and still images with the written word -as well as between private, educational, and professional domains (Oakey and Russell, this volume). Using mobile interfaces to global networks, individuals and organizations communicate across culBrought to you by |

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“…However, visualising information that generates the intended effect is not an easy task as it demands know-how and skills from a range of disciplines, including writing, editing, researching, data analysis, programming and designing (Giardina & Medina, 2013;Kirk, 2012;Segel & Heer, 2010). Because a jack-of-all-trades is often a rarity, the crucial success of a visualisation lies in a fruitful collaboration between various disciplines (Beak, Liebowitz, & Lewis, 2000;Mora, 2012;Weber & Rall, 2012). Nevertheless, a different background and culture, insufficient knowledge of each other's expertise and no common language often obstruct a successful teamwork (see also Smit, De Haan, & Buijs, 2014).…”

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“…Design and programming tasks are often outsourced for specific projects. Coming from different disciplines and not understanding each other's language or work can lead to problems in the process of making a visualisation (Kleinsman, Valkenburg, & Buijs, 2007;Weber & Rall, 2012). It is this problem of interdisciplinary working and the collaboration between different disciplines that we want to tap into.…”

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Working with or next to each other? Boundary crossing in the field of information visualisation

Smit

Haan

Buijs

2014

JOMI

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Due to the need to present information in a fast and attractive way, organizations are eager to use information visualisations. This study explores the collision between the different experts involved in the production of these visualisations using the model of trading zones supplemented with the learning mechanisms found in the boundary crossing literature. Results show that that there is not one single good solution to effective interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of information visualisation. Rather, all four types of cooperation that we distinguish -enforced, dominated, fractionated, and attuned -might work well, as long as they are adapted to the situation and the participants accept the constraints of the specific cooperation type they are engaged in. In any case the involved experts and initiators have to understand and incorporate approaches that enhance the cocreative, iterative nature of the production process. In surveying the different forms of collaboration we detect two major forms of trading zones: the one that encompasses the collaboration between an external client and a designer (external trading zone) and the trading zones within an organization between content producer and designer (internal trading zone). Both mechanisms of identifying each other's expertise and coordinating the different tasks in the production process seem beneficial for the production process.

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Data Visualization in Online Journalism and Its Implications for the Production Process

Abstract: Data stories -this buzzword links together two different disciplines: computer science and journalism. The new relationship is called data-driven journalism.

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring Journalism and Computer Science Student Collaboration

Exploring Journalism and Computer Science Student Collaboration

13 Beyond single modes and media: Writing as an ongoing multimodal text production

Working with or next to each other? Boundary crossing in the field of information visualisation

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