This document provides an overview of a workshop on using data for science journalism. It discusses several approaches for incorporating data into stories, including: mapping controversies on issues like climate change; using data to tell stories in science and technology; and analyzing networks to reveal connections. Specific techniques are illustrated, such as mapping the influence of climate change skeptics online and connections between counter-jihadist groups on Facebook. The document also reviews several tools and resources for data journalism.
The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and FutureJonathan Gray
Slides for presentation on “The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and Future” at the Data Power conference at the University of Sheffield, 22nd June 2015.
Slides for paper on “Open Data and the Politics of Transparency” at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2014, University of Glasgow.
Fighting Phantom Firms in the UK: From Opening Up Datasets to Reshaping Data ...Jonathan Gray
"Fighting Phantom Firms in the UK: From Opening Up Datasets to Reshaping Data Infrastructures?". Working paper presented at the Open Data Research Symposium at the 3rd International Open Government Data Conference in Ottawa, on May 27th 2015. The paper draws on research undertaken as part of the EU H2020 funded ROUTE-TO-PA project.
In this talk is offer three challenges for a critical data journalism practice drawing on the insights and examples from The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462989511/the-data-journalism-handbook. The talk is a keynote given at the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School at the University of Amsterdam on 5 July 2021.
Journalists today are faced with an overwhelming abundance of data – from large collections of leaked documents, to public databases about lobbying or government spending, to ‘big data’ from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. To stay relevant to society journalists are learning to process this data and separate signal from noise in order to provide valuable insights to their readers. This talk will address questions like: What is the potential of data journalism? Why is it relevant to society? And how can you get started?
The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and FutureJonathan Gray
Slides for presentation on “The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and Future” at the Data Power conference at the University of Sheffield, 22nd June 2015.
Slides for paper on “Open Data and the Politics of Transparency” at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2014, University of Glasgow.
Fighting Phantom Firms in the UK: From Opening Up Datasets to Reshaping Data ...Jonathan Gray
"Fighting Phantom Firms in the UK: From Opening Up Datasets to Reshaping Data Infrastructures?". Working paper presented at the Open Data Research Symposium at the 3rd International Open Government Data Conference in Ottawa, on May 27th 2015. The paper draws on research undertaken as part of the EU H2020 funded ROUTE-TO-PA project.
In this talk is offer three challenges for a critical data journalism practice drawing on the insights and examples from The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462989511/the-data-journalism-handbook. The talk is a keynote given at the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School at the University of Amsterdam on 5 July 2021.
Journalists today are faced with an overwhelming abundance of data – from large collections of leaked documents, to public databases about lobbying or government spending, to ‘big data’ from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. To stay relevant to society journalists are learning to process this data and separate signal from noise in order to provide valuable insights to their readers. This talk will address questions like: What is the potential of data journalism? Why is it relevant to society? And how can you get started?
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
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In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Journalism, data and storytelling: navigating the battlefieldPaul Bradshaw
Data journalism promises to offer a more factual, objective picture of the world — but to what extent can we fulfil that promise? How can storytelling techniques be useful in engaging audiences with factual data — and what risks do they hold? Drawing on a decade’s experiences as a data journalist, academic and author, Paul Bradshaw will discuss the decisions that data journalists take when telling stories with data, and how an awareness of narrative techniques and critical issues in the field can create better journalism.
Keynote at University of Cambridge - Cambridge Digital Humanities Data School June 2019
The World Ethical Data Forum Brochure to join us in London July 1–3, 2020 This leading event for impartial and balanced exploration of urgent ethical and practical questions around the use and future of data.
Data revolution or data divide? Can social movements bring the human back int...mysociety
This was presented by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach from the University of Amsterdam at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
OSi Geographic Information Research & Development Initiatives Launch
Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University
Talk on 'Political Transformations in Network Societies: The Internet, Power Shifts, and the Fifth Estate' for presentation for students and faculty of CIES, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, 9 March 2017.
Storytelling in the database era: uncertainty and science reportingPaul Bradshaw
Presentation at the Humboldt Foundation's International Journalists' Programmes 2020 about the changes within journalism around using interactivity for telling stories, and communicating uncertainty. The slides also include recommendations around avoiding mistakes.
Lesson 25 of 26 in a series on Old Testament Vistas. This sermon on Jeremiah and Ezekiel was presented June 19, 2011, at Palm Desert Church of Christ, by Dale Wells.
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
Note:
Interactivity and animation are lost when the slides are converted to PDF.
Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Journalism, data and storytelling: navigating the battlefieldPaul Bradshaw
Data journalism promises to offer a more factual, objective picture of the world — but to what extent can we fulfil that promise? How can storytelling techniques be useful in engaging audiences with factual data — and what risks do they hold? Drawing on a decade’s experiences as a data journalist, academic and author, Paul Bradshaw will discuss the decisions that data journalists take when telling stories with data, and how an awareness of narrative techniques and critical issues in the field can create better journalism.
Keynote at University of Cambridge - Cambridge Digital Humanities Data School June 2019
The World Ethical Data Forum Brochure to join us in London July 1–3, 2020 This leading event for impartial and balanced exploration of urgent ethical and practical questions around the use and future of data.
Data revolution or data divide? Can social movements bring the human back int...mysociety
This was presented by Kersti Ruth Wissenbach from the University of Amsterdam at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/
OSi Geographic Information Research & Development Initiatives Launch
Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University
Talk on 'Political Transformations in Network Societies: The Internet, Power Shifts, and the Fifth Estate' for presentation for students and faculty of CIES, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, 9 March 2017.
Storytelling in the database era: uncertainty and science reportingPaul Bradshaw
Presentation at the Humboldt Foundation's International Journalists' Programmes 2020 about the changes within journalism around using interactivity for telling stories, and communicating uncertainty. The slides also include recommendations around avoiding mistakes.
Lesson 25 of 26 in a series on Old Testament Vistas. This sermon on Jeremiah and Ezekiel was presented June 19, 2011, at Palm Desert Church of Christ, by Dale Wells.
Beyond Breakpoints: A Tour of Dynamic AnalysisC4Media
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2dXUUTG.
Nathan Taylor provides an introduction to the dynamic analysis research space, suggesting integrating these techniques into various internal tools. Filmed at qconnewyork.com.
Nathan Taylor is a software developer currently employed at Fastly, where he works on making the Web faster through high performance content delivery. Previous gigs have included hacking on low-level systems software such as Java runtimes at Twitter and, prior to that, the Xen virtual machine monitor in grad school.
Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital MethodsJonathan Gray
Slides from talk on "Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods" at Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, 23rd September 2014. Further details at: http://jonathangray.org/2014/09/10/mapping-issues-with-web-columbia/
An Epistemological Experiment: Issue Mapping, Data Journalism and the Public ...Jonathan Gray
Slides for talk at Utrecht Data School, Utrecht University, 27th October 2014. Further details at: http://jonathangray.org/2014/10/22/digital-methods-data-journalism-utrecht/
Keynote speech at the Digitale Praxen conference at Frankfurt UniversityINRIA - ENS Lyon
We will discuss four misunderstandings often connected to use of digital traces:
1) the use of a notion of digital traces that is both too narrow and too ambitious;
2) the alternation of oblivion and paranoia on the conditions of digital traces' production;
3) the tendency to confuse digital and automatic;
4) the hope that the digital traces are easily clamped by conventional methods.
We will try to show than when these misunderstandings are avoided, digital methods can renew the vision of social sciences and help them to overcome the classic divide between qualitative and quantitative methods.
What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalis...Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a talk I gave at the University of Ghent on 21 October 2014 about how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be used to study and inform data journalism.
This is a citizen science overview particularly aimed at graduate students enrolled in a new course at Arizona State University, aptly titled "Citizen Science." The author of this presentation, and course instructor, Darlene Cavalier, will talk students through its nuances and intersections with science, technology, and society.
Here Today, Gone within a Month: The Fleeting Life of Digital NewsFrederick Zarndt
In 1989 on the shores of Montana’s beautiful Flathead Lake, the owners of the weekly newspaper the Bigfork Eagle started TownNews.com to help community newspapers with developing technology. TownNews.com has since evolved into an integrated digital publishing and content management
system used by more than 1600 newspaper, broadcast, magazine, and webnative publications in
North America. TownNews.com is now headquartered on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river in Moline Illinois.
Not long ago Marc Wilson, CEO of TownNews.com, noticed that of the 220,000+ eedition pages posted on behalf of its customers at the beginning of the month, 210,000 were deleted by month’s end.
What? The front page story about a local business being sold to an international corporation that I read online September 1 will be gone by September 30? As well as the story about my daughter’s 1st place finish in the district field and track meet?
A 2014 national survey by the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) of 70 digitalonly and 406 hybrid (digital and print) newspapers conclusively showed that newspaper publishers also do not maintain archives of the content they produce. RJI found a dismal 12% of the “hybrid” newspapers reported
even backing up their digital news content and fully 20% of the “digitalonly” newspapers reported that they are backing up none of their content. Educopia Institute’s 2012 and 2015 surveys with newspapers and libraries concur, and further demonstrate that the longstanding partner to the newspaper—the library—likewise is neither collecting nor preserving this digital content.
This leaves us with a bitter irony, that today, one can find stories published prior to 1922 in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America and other digitized, out-of-copyright newspaper
collections but cannot, and never will be able to, read a story published online less than a month ago. In this paper we look at how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. We estimate how much online news is or will soon be forever lost because no one preserves it: not publishers, not libraries, not content management systems, and not the Internet Archive. We delve into some of the reasons why this content is not yet preserved, and we examine the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type. We then
suggest a pathway forward, via some initial steps that journalists, producers, legislators, libraries, distributors, and readers may each take to begin to rectify this historical loss going forward.
Convergence Partners has released its latest research report on big data and its meaning for Africa. The report argues that big data poses a threat to those it overlooks, namely a large percentage of Africa’s populace, who remain on big data’s periphery.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
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1. Using Data for Science Journalism
10 May 2015, International School of Science Journalism, Erice, Italy
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21. For example
Governments (portals, FOI, leaks)
Scientific research (open access, open data)
Civil society organisations and companies
User generated/citizen data
Data extracted from digital media
33. A selection of themes and topics from national!
(UK and US) and local (Glasgow) open data portals
34. CCTV Camera Locations - Runnymede Borough Council!
http://data.gov.uk/dataset/cctv-camera-locations
35. CO2 emissions by different sub-groups in manufacturing sector, 2000 to 2008!
http://data.gov.uk/dataset/co2-emissions-by-different-sub-groups-in-manufacturing-sector-2000-to-2008/
51. –Tommaso Venturini, Controversy Mapping, climaps.org
“Controversy mapping was introduced by Bruno Latour as a
teaching method to train students and future citizens to
navigate socio-technical debates through the creative
use of digital media.”
!
“The political aim of controversy mapping is to provide
innovative methods for approaching scientific and
technical disputes. ”
52. – Richard Rogers, “Political Research in the Digital Age”, International
Public Policy Review, 2014
“[Digital methods] refers to repurposing online devices and
platforms (such as Google searches, Facebook and
Wikipedia) for social and political research that would often
have been otherwise improbable.”
53. – Bruno Latour & Tommaso Venturini, “The Social Fabric: Digital Traces and
Quali-quantitative Methods”, Proceedings of Future En Seine, 2009
“The interest of electronic media lies in the fact that every
interaction that passes through them leaves traces…”
54. - Duncan J. Watts, “A twenty-first century science,” Nature, 2007
“Data about Internet-based communication and interactivity
could revolutionise our understanding of collective human
behaviour.”
!
55. – David Lazer et al., “Computational Social Science”, Science, 2009
“…[T]racing the spread of arguments, rumours, or positions
about political and other issues in the blogosphere, as well
as the behaviour of individuals ‘surfing’ the Internet, where
the concerns of an electorate become visible in the
searches they conduct.”
56. –Noortje Marres & Carolin Gerlitz, “Interface methods”, The Sociological
Review, forthcoming
!
“Social media data tend to be organised in ways that favour
highly particular modes of analysis, such as the investigation
of people’s ‘networks’, the ‘influence’ of actors, the ‘reach’ of
content or the ‘currency’ of certain words at certain moments
in time.”
57. “… A holistic understanding of digital social research, which
recognises that its analytic capacities derive from the
assembly of methods, data, tools, user practices, context of
application and so on.”
–Noortje Marres & Carolin Gerlitz, “Interface methods”, The Sociological
Review, forthcoming
66. Findings!
Both adaptation and mitigation are highly visible in
negotiations.
Mitigation has been a top priority from the beginning.
Adaptation received less attention in the beginning with
the exception of adaptation financing
Adaptation becomes more important in the second
phase of the negotiations.
69. Notable stability in presence and
intervention of countries.
Most active are China (representing G77),
United States and Europe.
Notable exceptions include Bolivia and
Philippines who are becoming more
prominent in recent negotiations.
Countries tend to be more active when they
host the negotiations.
70.
71. “…the negotiations on climate change have moved from
mitigation to also include adaptation, an issue which
could in principle be seen as a national responsibility.
Here it becomes particularly acute to justify which
countries should receive aid and why. A much
debated method for doing so is the assessment of
vulnerability to climate change.”
!
- climaps.org
74. Who is vulnerable according to whom?
Climaps (2014). Available at: http://climaps.org
75. Findings
• Vulnerability indices tend to disagree in their assessment
of different countries.
• Very few countries (7) are among the most vulnerable
according to all three indices.
• Quite a few countries (25) are simultaneously assessed to
be most vulnerable and least vulnerable according to
different indices.
• The assessment of climate change vulnerability by means
of indicators continues to be a contentious issue divide in
both policy and academic communities.
76. Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
77. Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
78. Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
79. Wired Italia (2014) “Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”.
Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
80. Wired Italia (2014) “Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”.
Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
82. BBC News (2007) “BBC switches off climate special”. Available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6979596.stm
83. – Richard Rogers, Digital Methods, MIT Press, 2013
“The skeptics were increasingly at the top of the
news. […] Are the skeptics at the top of the
web too?”
84. Climate Sceptics!
!
S. Fred Singer
Robert Balling
Sallie Baliunas
Patrick Michaels
Richard Lindzen
Steven Milloy
Timothy Ball
Paul Driessen
Willie Soon
Sherwood B. Idso
Frederick Seitz
85. Climate Sceptic Organisations!
!
American Enterprise Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council
Center for Science and Public Policy
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Frontiers of Freedom
Marshall Institute
Heartland Institute
Tech Central Station
86.
87.
88. Digital Methods Initiative (2007) “Climate Change Sceptics”.
Available at: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ClimateChangeSkeptics
89. Climate change sceptics appeared to have
disproportionate influence in the media relative
to their influence with other prominent climate
science organisations on the web.
91. Are climate skeptics mainstream or fringe in
climate science?
Do the skeptics and their co-authors publish
articles in the same disciplines and journals
as other climate scientists?
92. Sabine Niederer, “‘Global warming is not a crisis!’: Studying climate
change skepticism on the Web”, Necsus, 2013
93. Findings
• Sceptics are part of the mainstream of climate
change science research.
• Skeptical climate science is not positioned outside
the field but is part of climate science (ecology,
meteorology and atmospheric sciences,
environmental sciences, plant sciences, agronomy,
etc.)
• The skeptics publish in the top climate journals
including Nature and Science.
95. How may we map debates around
socio-technical issues with the web?
96. Climate change policy and activism
organise distinct publics
Digital Methods Winter School (2015)
97. Mapping the rise of the far right in
Europe with the web and social media
98. The Guardian (2013) “The rise of far right parties across Europe is a chilling echo of the 1930s”.
Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/far-right-threat-europe-integration
99. Huffington Post (2014) “Sudden Rise of Far Right Groups in EU Parliament Rings Alarm Bells Across
Europe”. Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinadav-heymann/sudden-rise-of-far-right-
_b_5512961.html
100. New York Times (2014) “Populist Party Gaining Muscle to Push Britain to the Right”.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/europe/populist-party-gaining-muscle-to-push-
britain-to-the-right.html
101. What are the recruitment methods
of far right groups?
106. 1. List of links per country
2. Analyse links between them
3. Study issues and actors
107. Findings
New issues (e.g. environment, anti-
globalisation and rights), principles and
recruitment techniques.
Counter-measures are outdated.
!
Islamophobia is located primarily in the North.
109. Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
112. Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
116. The Guardian (2012) “Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens”.
Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/14/breivik-trial-norway-mass-murderer
117. Hope Not Hate (2012) “Counter-Jihad Report”.
Available at: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/
119. Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping
the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
120. Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping
the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
121. Findings
Facebook is an important medium for extremist
groups.
!
Three main clusters based on geographical
proximity.
!
European Counter-Jihadist groups are networked
and transnational.
122. Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping
the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
153. How might networks concepts and analysis
be used in journalism in the future?
154. Functions of network analysis in the
newsroom!
!
• Presentational or storytelling device
• Story discovery
• Exploratory analysis of complex networks
and big databases
• Newsroom knowledge management
• Internal reference resource
155. Opportunities
!
• New insights into large and complex
systems
• More network analysis, rather than just
network mapping
• New data and methods for tracing networks
using social media and hyperlink analysis
• Identifying new sources for interviews
• Researchers and journalists collaborating to
tell stories about complex topics
156. Challenges
!
• Lack of awareness
• Lack of flagship projects
• Time, resource and budget constraints
• Lack of technical capacity and tooling
• Speed of tools and methods
• Lack vocabulary for talking about network
analysis