Power and the Powerless in the Media

Location: 8th Floor Auditorium Date & Time: Tue 18, 14:00 - 15:30

Topic Stream: Data Journalism and Visualisation

Description

 

Reading the Riots

Farida Vis, Research Fellow in the Social Sciences, Information School at the University of Sheffield, UK, @flygirltwo

Farida Vis presents the award-winning project Reading the Riots in which Guardian together with researchers mapped how rumors spread in social media during the London riots in 2011.

Powerful Influence Groups in the Media

Júlia Keserű ,Organisation: K-Monitor Watchdog for Public Funds, Hungary

K-Monitor Watchdog for Public Funds, a Hungarian lobbyist tracking NGO try to put pressure on newsrooms. Their aim is to develop tools that enable analysing and publicising advertisement trends, spending and comissions, ownership circles, company registry information, media, advertising and political network relations.

Lightning talks

Speakers to be confirmed.

Bios

 

FARIDA VIS

Farida Vis is a Research Fellow in the Social Sciences in the Information School at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her work is centrally concerned with researching social media, crisis communication, visual communication, data journalism and citizen engagement. She led the social media analysis on an academic team that examined 2.6 million riot tweets, analysing the role Twitter played in the 2011 UK riots, as part of The Guardian newspaper’s groundbreaking Reading the Riots project. The data visualisation (by The Guardian Interactive Team) showing the ways in which rumours spread on Twitter during the four days of riots won a Data Journalism Award, for Data Visualisation and Storytelling in a national or international publication. Her forthcoming book, Researching Social Media, is written with computer scientist Mike Thelwall, highlighting the need for such interdisciplinary work in this area and will be out with Sage in early 2013. More info about Farida’s work can be found from the blog: researchingsocialmedia.org.

Session Host

Jens Finnäs, Sveriges Radio/Freelance, Sweden, @jensfinnas and @dataist

Jens Finnäs is a Finnish data journalist and blogger living in Stockholm, working partly as a freelancer and partly at the public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. www.jensfinnas.com, dataist.wordpress.com