Ibero-American data journalism: development, contestation, and social change. Presentation

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Eddy Borges Rey
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-0901
Bahareh Heravi
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0587-1046
Turo Uskali

Abstract

As the emphasis of data journalism research shifts to the Global South one region that remains relatively under researched is Ibero-America. Arguably, a space that has pioneered data journalism practices and with enormous potential for social change and development through open data, Ibero-America has excelled in many areas related to the field: La Nación in Argentina has to date one of the most innovative data journalism units globally. Also, La Nación, together with the Spanish newspaper El País, were, together with the Guardian, the New York Times and the Spiegel, the first news organisation that extracted and published information from WikiLeaks’ War Logs. Finally, Spain is one of the most open societies in Europe, and a global example for open data. Yet, an absence of Ibero-American data journalism studies from mainstream scholarship, creates an opportunity to further explore the developments and evolution of data journalism in this geographic region. In this vein, this special edition of Icono14 aims at repositioning Iberian American data journalism within the broadest discussions on the field, recontextualising its contribution into debates on the role of this journalistic practice in the Global South.

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Borges Rey, Eddy, Bahareh Heravi, and Turo Uskali. 2018. “Ibero-American Data Journalism: Development, Contestation, and Social Change. Presentation”. Journal ICONO 14 16 (2):1-13. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v16i2.1221.
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Author Biographies

Eddy Borges Rey, University of Stirling

Eddy holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Zulia in Venezuela and an MA and PhD in Music and Communication from the University of Malaga in Spain. His doctoral thesis looked at the musical imagery used by online communities of prosumers when attributing meaning to their musical practices on the internet. He joined the Division of Communication Media and Culture in 2011 as Lecturer in Journalism Studies from the University of Malaga where he taught Production and Media Studies.  Eddy has worked as a music journalist, a television and radio producer and a PR practitioner in Venezuela and Spain between 1996 and 2010.

Bahareh Heravi, University College Dublin, Irland

I am an Assistant Professor in Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin (UCD), where I am the school's Postgraduate Director, and the Director of UCD's new Data Journalism programme

I am also the co-chair of the European Data & Computational Journalism Conference. Additionally I serve at the programme committee of various conferences such as Computation+Journalism, ACM Hypertext, IEEE HICSS and the Web Conference, amongst others, and have co-organised a number of workshops including Social Media and News at ICWSM, Social Media Archiving at HICSS and Citizen Journalism and Social Media at HICSS. 

Turo Uskali, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Turo Uskali (Ph.D., University of Jyväskylä, 2003) is University Researcher in the Department of Communication at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He heads several research projects focusing on innovations in journalism. The newest one Work Practices in Data Journalism started in April 2013. Uskali has worked as a visiting researcher and an associate fellow at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, UK (2007-2008), and as a visiting scholar at the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford University, California (2006-2007). Uskali has authored or co-authored five books about the evolution of global journalism and the changes in media industries. His research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator (2011), Innovation Journalism (2005-2011) and Media & Viestintä (Media & Communication) (2005-2013). He has contributed a chapter to Corporate Reputation and the News Media – Agenda-Setting within Business News Coverage in Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets (2011).

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