[ecrea] CFP - Nordic Data Journalism Conference (NODA18) - The second wave of data journalism research

*CFP: Nordic Data Journalism Conference (NODA18), academic 
pre-conference, March 15, 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden***

*“The second wave of data journalism research”*

Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 December 2017

On March 15-17, 2018, the fourth annual Nordic data journalism 
conference, NODA18, will be hosted by Södertörn University, in 
Stockholm, Sweden. The conference, founded by Södertörn University in 
2013 together with seven Swedish media companies, combines professional, 
practical, and scientific aspects to bring together media professionals 
and media researchers working with data journalism and/or digital 
journalism.

NODA 2018 features an academic track on Thursday, March 15, during which 
scholars are invited to present their work on data journalism. 
Participation in the academic track also includes admission to the rest 
of the conference program.

There will be two key-note sessions at this event: Jonathan Albright, 
Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, on facing 
the data: post-truth digital journalismand Eddy Borges-Rey, University 
of Stirling, and Florian Stalph, University of Passau, on assessing the 
eco system around data-driven reporting.

The rise of post-factual politics has made journalistic analysis and 
presentation of large datasets more relevant than ever. Technological 
innovations, such as automation and bots, have led to the spread and 
diversification of data journalism, which is increasingly applied beyond 
elite news organizations. While projects like the Panama Papers have 
been described as data journalism at its best, data journalism has also 
come under criticism as opinion polls failed to predict the success of 
Trump and Brexit. The move to more interactive forms of data 
visualization have resonated with an increasingly active audience, and 
the inclusion of a chapter on Data Journalism in the 2017 edition of the 
AP style book can be seen as a final sign that it has now become a 
mature field of journalism.

As data journalism continues to develop, we are also seeing a new wave 
of data journalism research that is different than what has been 
labelled the first wave of data journalism research (e.g. Aussenhoffer, 
2017). The pioneering first wave was dominated by national and 
institutional case studies that focused in particular on knowledge 
production in newsrooms, often of the elite media. While these studies 
have clarified how data journalism is to be understood in different 
contexts, reviews of the literature have pointed out that the majority 
of them are descriptive in nature (Borges-Rey, 2017). These studies also 
often take a future-oriented approach and focus on best-practice 
examples and the potential and novelty of data journalism, rather than 
setting data journalism in its historical context (Anderson, 2012). In 
addition, few studies in this first wave of data journalism research 
have taken a comparative perspective or studied data journalism beyond 
the Western world.

As we enter into the second wave of data journalism research, NODA18 
welcomes submissions addressing theoretical or methodological issues 
particularly in the area of digital journalism that is referred to as 
data journalism. Because data journalism practices involve a convergence 
of disciplines, we also encourage cross-disciplinal studies, where 
journalism studies theory and methodology are influenced by research 
fields such as media technology, data science, interaction design, 
organizations, business and administration or political science.

Södertörn University also encourages research linked to the Baltic Sea 
region and Eastern Europe, and we would therefore be very happy to see 
studies addressing data journalism from this particular region, as well 
as studies with a comparative international perspective from other 
countries.

NODA18 invites papers that address theoretical or methodological issues 
in relation to:

- the impact of computational logics and paradigms in data journalism 
practices,

- the history and development of data journalism from a comparative 
perspective,

- data journalism beyond the Western world,

- the impact of artificial intelligence, intelligence augmentation and 
automation of data journalism labor,

- the sustainability of data journalism beyond legacy organizations, 
such as hyperlocal data journalism,

- the role of non-legacy organizations, such as Facebook and Google, in 
shaping data journalism through support systems,

- data issues: fact checking and verification practices in data 
journalism and the reporting of uncertainty,

- open data, freedom of information legislation and data journalism,

- visualization and interaction design,

- audience engagement, interaction and consumption of data journalism 
content, and

- business models and policies for data journalism.

Abstracts for papers (500 words maximum, in a Scandinavian language or 
English) can be submitted until December 1, 2017, to 
(submissions /at/ noda2018.se).

PhD students are also welcome to contribute poster submissions to a PhD 
student’s poster session.

Acceptance notifications will be sent out mid-December 2017.

For more information, please see http://noda2018.se, email 
(submissions /at/ noda2018.se) or contact the pre-conference chairs:

Ester Appelgren, Södertörn University, Sweden

Carl-Gustav Lindén, Helsinki University, Finland

Arjen van Dalen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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