Journalism innovation leads to innovation journalism: The impact of computational exploration on changing mindsets
Top Cited Papers
- 22 May 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journalism
- Vol. 15 (6), 713-730
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913486393
Abstract
This article investigates a rapidly expanding branch of journalism innovation in online news media. The umbrella term computational exploration in journalism (CEJ), embraces the multifaceted development of algorithms, data, and social science methods in reporting and storytelling. CEJ typically involves the journalistic co-creation of quantitative news projects that transcend geographical, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries. Drawing on extensive empirical data, this article provides a conceptual overview of the field by identifying three main pathways of computational exploration in journalism: the newsroom approach, the academic approach, and the entrepreneurial approach. Implications for changing journalistic practice are discussed, and the theorizing is summed up in a triplex proposition about changing mindset processes coming out of CEJ. The study indicates that the computational exploration not only leads to innovative uses of the technology, but also to innovative ways for journalists to think and behave; journalism innovation leads to innovation journalism.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Trends in New Media Research: A Critical Review of Recent ScholarshipSociology Compass, 2012
- THE PROMISE OF COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALISMJournalism Practice, 2012
- Computational journalismCommunications of the ACM, 2011
- Ensuring the Data-Rich Future of the Social SciencesScience, 2011
- A Method of Automated Nonparametric Content Analysis for Social ScienceAmerican Journal of Political Science, 2009
- Innovation‐supportive culture: The impact of organizational values on process innovationJournal of Operations Management, 2006
- Computational thinkingCommunications of the ACM, 2006
- The Concept of Information Overload: A Review of Literature from Organization Science, Accounting, Marketing, MIS, and Related DisciplinesThe Information Society, 2004
- Digitizing the NewsPublished by MIT Press ,2004
- The Impact of Technology on JournalismJournalism Studies, 2000