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What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalism research and practice
The document discusses how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be utilized in data journalism research and practice. It explores topics such as the intersection of data journalism and traditional journalistic values, the politics of quantitative analysis, and the use of digital methods to map controversies and understand the networks surrounding data journalism. The document highlights various analytical techniques and tools that can be applied to study data journalism and the dynamics within contemporary media landscapes.
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- 1. What Actor-Network Theory(ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalism research and practice 21st October 2014, Ghent University Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana!
- 3. Using ANT anddigital methods! I. to study data journalism! II. to do data journalism
- 4. I. Using ANTand digital methods to study data journalism
- 5. Geeks vs. pundits:! The clash of two epistemological cultures
- 6. "Nate Silver saysthis is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is going to win? Nobody in that campaign thinks they have a 73 percent chance — they think they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning. And you talk to the Romney people, it’s the same thing. . . . Anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a toss-up right now is such an ideologue, they should be kept away from typewriters, computers, laptops and microphones for the next 10 days, because they're jokes." (Joe Scarborough, MSNBC, 2012)
- 7. “I am NateSilver, the Lord and God of the Algorithm!” (Jon Stewart, 2012)
- 8. How to studythis collision with ANT and digital methods
- 9. “[T]here is nothingspecific to social order; (…) there is no social dimension of any sort, no social ‘context’, no distinct domain of reality to which the label ‘social’ or ‘society’ could be attributed; (…) no ‘social force’ is available to ‘explain’ the residual features other domains cannot account for (…) and (…) society, far from being the context ‘in which’ everything is framed, should rather be constructed as one of the many connecting elements circulating in tiny conduits” – Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (2005)
- 10. “The social isvisible only by the traces it leaves..” – Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (2005)
- 11. “The interest ofelectronic media lies in the fact that every interaction that passes through them leaves traces..” – Bruno Latour & Tommaso Venturini, “The Social Fabric: Digital Traces and Quali-quantitative Methods” (2009)
- 12. Digital methods are“methods of the medium” designed to repurpose digital objects such as tags, likes, links and hashtags to study issues. – Digital Methods Initiative
- 13. 1. An onlinemapping of data journalism
- 14. Who speaks aboutdata journalism and what issues are at stake? What groups and practices are articulated around labels associated with data journalism online? What visions and values do they promote?
- 15. Twitter: co-hashtag analysis,social graph by mentions, URL frequency Web: Historical Google rankings, hyperlink analysis Mailing lists: lexical analysis, social graph by replies
- 16. 2. The lifeof data in the newsroom
- 17. “Objects, too, haveagency” – Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory (2005)
- 18. “[F]ocusing on theobjects of journalism […] can provide scholars with insights into the social, material, and cultural context that suffuses our technologically obsessed world.” – C.W. Anderson and Juliette De Maeyer, “Introduction: Objects of Journalism and the News”, 2014
- 19. What journalistic practices,values and visions are articulated around the use of data as raw material for reporting? How are traditional journalistic practices, values and norms, transformed?
- 20. Ethnography Interviews Observations Internal documents Digital methods
- 21. 3. The politicsof quantitative methods in the newsroom
- 22. Where do journalists’attachments to particular forms of quantitative analysis come from? How are these commitments articulated? How do they shape the process of knowledge production and its outcomes? What quantitative methods are being left out? (the question of alternative histories)
- 23. Ethnography Secondary literature Digital methods
- 24. II. Using ANTand digital methods to do data journalism!
- 26. Controversy mapping for journalism!
- 27. STS researchers leading digital newsrooms new ways of covering complex issues + =
- 28. suite of opensource tools for capturing, analysing and narrating socio-technical controversies for journalism
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- 30. Mapping the riseof the far right in Europe with the web and social media
- 31. 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
- 32. 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
- 33. 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
- 34. What are therecruitment methods of far right groups?
- 35. Are current recruitmentcounter-measures proving effective?
- 36. What kinds ofissues are most active amongst far right groups?
- 37. How are farright extremist groups connected to populist right and other right wing groups?
- 38. Profiles for 13European countries.
- 39. 1. List oflinks per country 2. Analyse links between them 3. Study issues and actors
- 40. 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.
- 41. Greece: blood andsoil and organic markets
- 42. Rogers, R. etal (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
- 44. Hungary: horse andyurt recruitment festivals
- 45. Rogers, R. etal (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
- 47. Taking back theyurt?
- 48. Counter-Jihadist groups onsocial media
- 49. 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
- 50. Hope Not Hate(2012) “Counter-Jihad Report”. Available at: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/
- 51. Are different Counter-Jihadistgroups in Europe connected? If so how?
- 52. Digital Methods Initiative.“Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
- 53. Digital Methods Initiative.“Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
- 54. Findings Facebook isan important medium for extremist groups. ! Three main clusters based on geographical proximity. ! European Counter-Jihadist groups are networked and transnational.
- 55. Who are thenew leaders?
- 57. Findings! ! Offlineleaders are active on Facebook. ! There are also new emerging online leaders. ! New technique for identifying online leaders.
- 58. Some tools and techniques that organise web and social media for research…
- 59. “Netvizz is atool that extracts data from different sections of the Facebook platform (personal profile, groups, pages) for research purposes.”
- 60. Rieder, B. (2013).Studying Facebook via data extraction: the Netvizz application. In WebSci '13 Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 346-355). New York: ACM.
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- 62. “The Twitter Captureand Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT) captures tweets and allows for multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users, search, ...).”
- 63. Borra, E. &Rieder, B. (2014) “Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing tweets”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. Vol. 66 No. 3: 262-278.
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- 67. “A software toolthat locates and visualizes networks on the web”
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- 69. “Gephi is aninteractive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.”
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- 71. Techniques! Co-occurrence analysisto identify themes Network analysis to identify actors and sources Hyperlink analysis to explore “politics of association” Resonance analysis to identify source partisanship
- 72. Thank You! LilianaBounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana