[Commlist] New book: Data for Journalism Between Transparency and Accountability

*Data for Journalism Between Transparency and Accountability * 
<https://www.routledge.com/Data-for-Journalism-Between-Transparency-and-Accountability/Tong/p/book/9780367466343>
By Jingrong Tong

*Book Description*


Considering the interactions between developments in open data and data 
journalism, /Data for Journalism: //Between Transparency and 
Accountability /offers an interdisciplinary account of this complex and 
uncertain relationship in a context of tightening the control over data 
and weighing transparency against privacy.

As data has brought both promise and disruptive changes to societies, 
the relationship between transparency and accountability has become 
complicated, and data journalism is practised alongside the 
contradictory needs of opening up and protecting data. In addition to 
exploring the benefits of data for journalism, this book addresses the 
uncertain nature of data and the obstacles preventing data from being 
fluently accessed and properly used for data reporting. Because of these 
obstacles, it argues individual data journalists play a decisive role in 
using data for journalism and facilitating the circulation of data. 
Frictions in data access, newsrooms’ resources and cultures and data 
journalists’ skill and data literacy levels determine the degree to 
which journalism can benefit from data, and these factors potentially 
exacerbate digital inequalities between newsrooms in different countries 
and with different resources. As such, the author takes an international 
perspective, drawing on empirical research and cases from around the 
world, including countries such as the UK, the US, Germany, Sweden, 
Australia, India, China and Japan.

Introducing a new dimension to the study of developments in journalism 
and the role of journalism in society, /Data for Journalism /will be of 
interest to academics and researchers in the fields of journalism and 
the sociology of (big and open) data.

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