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"The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the news, serving as both a textbook and a sourcebook for this emerging field. With more than 50 chapters from leading researchers and practitioners of data journalism, it explores the work needed to render technologies and data productive for journalistic purposes. It also gives a ""behind the scenes"" look at the social lives of data sets, data infrastructures, and data stories in newsrooms, media organizations, start-ups, civil society organizations and beyond. The book includes sections on ""doing issues with data,"" ""assembling data,"" ""working with data,"" ""experiencing data,"" ""investigating data, platforms and algorithms,"" ""organizing data journalism,"" ""learning data journalism together"" and ""situating data journalism."""

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This is a stellar collection that spans applied and scholarly perspectives on practices of data journalism, rich with insights into the work of making data tell stories. Kate Crawford, New York University and Microsoft Research; author of Atlas of AI This stimulating new book offers researchers and journalists alike the welcome chance to reflect critically on how important new uses of quantification are inspiring what has become known as data journalism. The variety of voices, data, and examples are revelatory. Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University; co-author of Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability It is now established that data is entangled with politics and embedded in history and society. This bountiful book highlights the crucial role of data journalists as users and critics of data, and in facilitating public engagement and discussion around it. Emmanuel Didier, Ecole normale superieure and author of America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics Profound and practical, this sparkling collection engages the topic of data journalism with rich insights into the nature of numbers in the news. It explores both the hows and whys of developing this emergent field through a wonderful range of essays spanning many domains and countries and is of great interest for those producing, consuming and studying news stories based on data. Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine; co-author of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences and author of Memory Practices in the Sciences This book is an impressive feat. Bounegru and Gray have put together a truly global and diverse collection that greatly enriches our understanding of the politics of data and what it means for journalism. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, this contribution is more important than ever. Lina Dencik, co-founder of the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University; co-author of Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society Ostensibly focused on data journalism, this handbook is so much more, providing an overarching analysis of much of the emerging field of critical data studies. Journalists and others interested in how to assemble, work with, make sense of, apply, and critically reflect on data and their uses will revel in the extensive theoretical and practical insights. Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University; author of The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences The Data Journalism Handbook is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and journalists who want to understand how data are translated into information, information in knowledge and, ultimately, wisdom. That itinerary all starts with a full comprehension of how data reflect, construct and shape our social reality. Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru have collected and presented an impressive number of illuminating practices in this Handbook. Jose van Dijck, Utrecht University; author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society A professional and academic field reaches maturity when it begins to cast a light on itself and becomes capable of self-criticism, asking not only descriptive questions such as how we do things, but analytical ones, such as why we should or shouldn't do those things. The new edition of 'The Data Journalism Handbook' signals that we might have reached that point with the use of digital data to do news reporting and inform audiences. The variety, diversity, and depth of the contributions to this collective effort make this book a required reading for beginners and professionals alike. Alberto Cairo, University of Miami; author of How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information

This is a stellar collection that spans applied and scholarly perspectives on practices of data journalism, rich with insights into the work of making data tell stories. - Kate Crawford, New York University This stimulating new book offers researchers and journalists alike the welcome chance to reflect critically on how important new uses of quantification are inspiring what has become known as data journalism. The variety of voices, data, and examples are revelatory. - Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University It is now established that data is entangled with politics and embedded in history and society. This bountiful book highlights the crucial role of data journalists as users and critics of data, and in facilitating public engagement and discussion around it. - Emmanuel Didier, Ecole normale superieure Profound and practical, this sparkling collection engages the topic of data journalism with rich insights into the nature of numbers in the news. - Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine This book is an impressive feat. Bounegru and Gray have put together a truly global and diverse collection that greatly enriches our understanding of the politics of data and what it means for journalism. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, this contribution is more important than ever. - Lina Dencik, Cardiff University Ostensibly focused on data journalism, this handbook is so much more, providing an overarching analysis of much of the emerging field of critical data studies. Journalists and others interested in how to assemble, work with, make sense of, apply, and critically reflect on data and their uses will revel in the extensive theoretical and practical insights. - Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University The Data Journalism Handbook is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and journalists who want to understand how data are translated into information, information in knowledge and, ultimately, wisdom. That itinerary all starts with a full comprehension of how data reflect, construct and shape our social reality. - Jose van Dijck, Utrecht University The variety, diversity, and depth of the contributions to this collective effort make this book a required reading for beginners and professionals alike. - Alberto Cairo, University of Miami This magical multitudinous book is an experiment that will shape the future of critical data journalism. - Celia Lury, University of Warwick By providing a wealth of living testimonies from practitioners and academics from different countries, this book gives a rich overview of practices that have become key in contemporary journalism. The main virtue of this book is to give a set of practical insights to help journalists not only to better cooperate with their peers but also to establish more fruitful relationships with researchers and publics. - Sylvain Parasie, Sciences Po This wide-ranging and thoughtfully curated volume is an essential companion for researchers and practitioners who seek to rethink what data can mean for themselves and their audiences. - Yanni A. Loukissas, Georgia Tech An intelligent and cutting-edge entry-point to the field of data journalism, sure to become an essential part of curricula and research around this topic. - Anja Bechmann, Aarhus University

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Liliana Bounegru is Lecturer in Digital Methods at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, co-founder of the Public Data Lab and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, co-founder of the Public Data Lab and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam.

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