Ch. 4&5 Summary

Ch. 4 & 5 Summary

By: Lorraine Henderson

OVERVIEW & PURPOSE for Ch.4

This chapter is about social dimension of data journalism , of finding material, of sharing it and collaborating with the public, puts the new practice of data journalism well within the realm of social journalism.

Introduction

1. The world is full of data; financial data is probably the oldest form of data journalism.
2. Data: Large amounts of information, often numeric, graphs, maps or other illustrative ways.
3. Narrative function is essential to the process of data journalism and distinguishes news outlets from everyone else publishing data.

• --Narrative function: to tell stories and make sense of raw information.

Finding Data

1. Commissioned data

• Most common example is commissioned polls, like political questions
• Polling: Asking a range of people their opinions. Can be conducted by professional organizations or just a random person doing it on Twitter.

1. Government and institutional data

• Largest source for any news organization
• When trying to find local data, try to make contact with the people who collate and manage the data in the area-- very useful for massaging the data you need.

1. Freedom of information

• FOIAs: Any legislation that guarantees the legal right of access to government or corporate information-- part of the stated democratic goal of transparency.

1. Other Sources

• Leaked sources= best friend’s with news organizations
• Whistleblowers: People who revela (usually) criminal activity on the part of organizations to the gov’t or the press. In many countries, they are protected by the law, however, seek legal advice before proceeding.

Data Dumps

• Disinformation: The deliberate spreading of false information via the media. Also discussed in Ch. 9.
• WikiLeaks

Crowdsourcing

• Uses the public to gather and share data and information about the community, from littering to transport problems.
• Set up: asking for emails or tweet the newsroom, or as complex as creating a custom application to run people’s computers and smartphones.
• Gamification: To bringing elements of interactivity and game-design mechanics into other disciplines to make them more engaging.

OVERVIEW & PURPOSE for Ch.5

This chapter will look at the ways in which new technologies allow users to aggregate, organize and share content, and how this is both a challenge and an opportunity for journalists.

Introduction

• Distribution strategies play an integral part in rebooting journalism.

Search Engines

• Good at looking through large sets of data and returning results based on keywords
• Metadata: Pieces of content in terms of what is ‘behind the scenes’.
• Referral traffic: A sophisticated range of metrics and analytical tools are being constantly developed to better understand how stories are distributed online

Adding the Aggregators

• A key building block in distributing content around the internet
• Search aggregation: Content can easily be delivered to you, either on a home page or reader, via RSS.
• News aggregators: available news content on the web ad bundles it together.
• QR codes: Two-dimensional matrix barcode that can be read by an appropriate app on smart phones.

Open API: Refers to the sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other.

My New WAVE

Doing this fashion and makeup blog will help me move in the direction that I think I want to take on. Fashion is not just about style, it's a lifestyle. As well as makeup for me. Fashion has always been in my life from the time I was five years old. My mom told me I could pick out my own outfit. For some reason I decided to wear all purple but back in the day that was style. Fashion also received my attention from one of my older sisters, Chanelle and her best friend at the time. I was around the age fifteen and sixteen and one afternoon after church was over we watched, “Sex and the City”. At first I wasn't a big fan of the television show and I think it's just because I was younger. After taking some time I finally was old enough to understand I realized the main character, Carrie Bradshaw, has a column in New York Observer and then eventually started making books and became a household name. After seeing that made me feel like it's possible to do something that I love to do and mix it up. Because I love to write but I don't want to write something I don't have any passion behind it. I'm also going to include makeup because fashion and makeup go hand and hand. Any fashion trends that go on includes what makeup goes along with it. Make up for me has been in my life for just the last couple of years and I love it o it when it was my senior prom and my friend was doing my makeup and I had to get this expensive lipstick. Good thing I still have it to this day, right? So here with this new blog I can’t wait to explore things that I haven’t tried but wanted to.