scholarly journals 'GLOBAL, NETWORKED AND COLLABORATIVE': HOW THE NORMALIZATION OF LEAKING SHAPED THE IDENTITY AND PRACTICE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Baack
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Global Standards

From the Panama Papers to the Migrants' Files, we appear to witness a 'Golden Age of global muckraking'. While cross-border collaborations among journalists are not new, data technologies have dramatically increased their scale and degree of collaboration. Transnational collaborations among journalists are increasingly data-driven operations specialized on facilitating the analysis of huge leaks. In a more dynamic media environment, where traditional identities and routines of journalism are being challenged, data-driven transnational networks help to articulate global standards of investigative journalism and shape journalism's ability to tackle issues in an increasingly globalized and interdependent world. This paper shows how data-driven journalism networks today are shaped by the ways in which journalists normalized leaking in technological, organizational, and cultural ways since Wikileaks’ publication of the Afghan war logs. The result has been a) the establishment – or evolution – of national and transnational structures that facilitate collaborations; and b) that the concept of ‘leaking’ was moved away from radical transparency advocacy, and into traditional journalistic ethics and identities. The subsequent normalization of leaking is relevant beyond leaking itself, as it more broadly shapes practices around ‘data-driven cross-border collaboration’. This means that the practices, organizational structures and technologies developed around leaking also shape collaborative data collection or data sharing projects. To examine the future of journalism in a more globalized and datafied world, I will conclude with suggesting that media and journalism studies needs to rely more on theories and methodological frameworks that do justice to journalism’s increasingly transcultural nature.

scholarly journals Getting Started Creating Data Dictionaries: How to Create a Shareable Data Set

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 251524592092800
Author(s):  
Erin M. Buchanan ◽  
Sarah E. Crain ◽  
Ari L. Cunningham ◽  
Hannah R. Johnson ◽  
Hannah Stash ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Dictionary ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
Shared Data ◽  
Source Data

As researchers embrace open and transparent data sharing, they will need to provide information about their data that effectively helps others understand their data sets’ contents. Without proper documentation, data stored in online repositories such as OSF will often be rendered unfindable and unreadable by other researchers and indexing search engines. Data dictionaries and codebooks provide a wealth of information about variables, data collection, and other important facets of a data set. This information, called metadata, provides key insights into how the data might be further used in research and facilitates search-engine indexing to reach a broader audience of interested parties. This Tutorial first explains terminology and standards relevant to data dictionaries and codebooks. Accompanying information on OSF presents a guided workflow of the entire process from source data (e.g., survey answers on Qualtrics) to an openly shared data set accompanied by a data dictionary or codebook that follows an agreed-upon standard. Finally, we discuss freely available Web applications to assist this process of ensuring that psychology data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

scholarly journals Content Management Systems Performance and Compliance Assessment Based on a Data-Driven Search Engine Optimization Methodology

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Ioannis Drivas ◽  
Dimitrios Kouis ◽  
Daphne Kyriaki-Manessi ◽  
Georgios Giannakopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Search Engine Optimization ◽  
Optimization Methodology ◽  
Content Management Systems ◽  
The Web

While digitalization of cultural organizations is in full swing and growth, it is common knowledge that websites can be used as a beacon to expand the awareness and consideration of their services on the Web. Nevertheless, recent research results indicate the managerial difficulties in deploying strategies for expanding the discoverability, visibility, and accessibility of these websites. In this paper, a three-stage data-driven Search Engine Optimization schema is proposed to assess the performance of Libraries, Archives, and Museums websites (LAMs), thus helping administrators expand their discoverability, visibility, and accessibility within the Web realm. To do so, the authors examine the performance of 341 related websites from all over the world based on three different factors, Content Curation, Speed, and Security. In the first stage, a statistically reliable and consistent assessment schema for evaluating the SEO performance of LAMs websites through the integration of more than 30 variables is presented. Subsequently, the second stage involves a descriptive data summarization for initial performance estimations of the examined websites in each factor is taking place. In the third stage, predictive regression models are developed to understand and compare the SEO performance of three different Content Management Systems, namely the Drupal, WordPress, and custom approaches, that LAMs websites have adopted. The results of this study constitute a solid stepping-stone both for practitioners and researchers to adopt and improve such methods that focus on end-users and boost organizational structures and culture that relied on data-driven approaches for expanding the visibility of LAMs services.

scholarly journals The truth must prevail: citizens’ rights to know the truth during the era of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Joseph D Sarmiento ◽  
John Federick C Yap ◽  
Kevin Aldrin G Espinosa ◽  
Ria P Ignacio ◽  
Carisma A Caro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis

ABSTRACT In a recent short report, the necessity of sophisticated practices in gathering records that would facilitate data sharing yields data-driven analysis in time of COVID-19. Consequently, there is a need to present the truth in data analytics in the era of COVID-19. This paper discusses the urgent call for people handling the COVID-19 data to be ethically responsible in their handling, processing, and reporting that impacts the lives of ordinary people especially in this time of pandemic as public health crisis.

scholarly journals Negotiating Roles and Routines in Collaborative Investigative Journalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Konow-Lund
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Tax Haven ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
Media Company

Over the past two decades, the practice of investigative journalism has been reconstructed via the rise of journalistic networks around the world that have layered collaboration atop what had long been an individual pursuit. Among the recent successes of collaborative investigative journalism was the cross-border effort to expose the tax haven leaks that included the Panama Papers (2016). Due to such notable accomplishments, research on cross-border collaboration is increasing, but the ways in which this pooling of resources, time, and networks has impacted practice on a daily basis remain under-investigated. This article looks at how organizations and actors in emerging and legacy newsrooms are negotiating their routines and roles while developing new practices in investigative journalism. It uses three organizations as cases: Bristol Cable, a journalistic co-op operating at the community/local level; the Bureau Local, a local/national data-coordinating news desk; and <em>The Guardian</em>, a legacy media company that has long operated at the national/global level. This article finds that, in the transitions of traditional organizations and journalists and the emergence of new innovative organizations and non-journalistic actors, actors involved in collaborative investigative journalism deploy a language of justification regarding rules between the new and the old. It also finds that concepts such as coordination are part of this negotiation, and that knowledge and knowledge generation are taking place within a traditional understanding of journalism, as the “new” is normalized over time.

Dynamic Distribution Method of Data Collection Platform for Multi-site Data Sharing

2021 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
pp. 1444-1452
Author(s):  
Takuya Habara ◽  
Daisuke Ishii ◽  
Daisuke Ito ◽  
Yuji Ogata
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Distribution Method ◽  
Dynamic Distribution

Fintech growth outpaces regulation in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Tier 2 ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Growth

Significance E-payment transaction volumes have risen dramatically as more people shop online and embrace non-cash payments. Moreover, fintechs are expanding into new segments of the financial services market such as crowdfunding and insurance. The future growth and resilience of this ecosystem depend on updating the regulatory and data protections framework, which is underway. Impacts Legislation on cross-institution and cross-border data sharing would be crucial to boost public confidence in fintechs. Continued growth of fintechs will increase the demand for cybersecurity services. Tier 2 cities will become increasingly important digital markets.

2012

2019 ◽  
pp. 147-178
Author(s):  
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Message Testing ◽  
Complex Hybrid

The 2012 presidential candidates refined proven practices and ran the most data-driven campaigns in history. The candidates deployed social media, strategic online ad buys, and used their websites as the cornerstones of their campaign practices in the increasingly complex, hybrid media environment. Obama’s and Romney’s campaigns produced a variety of tactics to interact with supporters in a way that suggested that controlled interactivity had been perfected. They built massive voter files to target usual demographic groups while expanding to new groups typically unreached by campaigns and conducted careful message testing to yield maximum effect. Yet, for the carefully scripted work to structure interactivity between supporters and the campaign and among supporters to greatest advantage for the candidate, a substantial challenge remained: how to manage messaging in the complex, hybrid media environment where gaffes and opposition discourse can be amplified in ways unintended and with unknown consequences for campaigns.

Transnational Solidarity of Salafi ʿUlama

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-62
Author(s):  
Raihan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Political Islam ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
Cross National

This chapter examines the history of transnational networks of Salafi ʿulama in the context of Islamism. It looks at the emergence of Salafi cross-border connections which began as apolitical, but gradually mutated, witnessing the development of the activist haraki trend. The chapter then examines how both haraki and quietist ʿulama forged regional alliances to preserve their interpretations of political Islam by endorsing other ʿulama of similar views. These interactions cross national boundaries, and take place within the framework of domestic, regional, and global political circumstances. The chapter analyzes whether these political circumstances foster or destabilize the networks of ʿulama as they attempt to construct and maintain Salafi political or apolitical identity.

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