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
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