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Enthusiasm for Making a Difference: Adapting Data Journalism Skills for Digital Campaigning
Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2018-05-09 , DOI: 10.1177/1326365x18768134
Glen Fuller 1
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Journalism is conventionally taught through a ‘teaching hospital’ type model involving a set of tacit professional skills largely developed through experience (Anderson, Glaisyer, Smith, & Rothfeld, 2011). This article reports on the approach taken to adapt data journalism pedagogy for a digital campaigning unit in a journalism course. The main focus is building confidence with developing relevant technical skills in what Davies and Cullen (2016) describe as ‘quantitative literacy’. Although there is a range of ways to approach the turn to ‘data journalism’ (Coddington, 2015), teaching aspects of data and computational journalism with students can be difficult as the focus on technical and math skills contravenes the self-identity of journalism students as writers or similar (Nguyen & Lugo-Ocando, 2015). Meyer and Land’s (2005) pedagogical theory of the ‘threshold concept’ is used to think through the affective aspects of a practical exercise for developing ‘data confidence’. Journalism has long attracted students with a social justice orientation and who want to ‘make a difference’ (Vromen, 2016), and challenging students to appreciate the social change context of online engagement is often sufficient to enthuse a student into developing technical skills. The example explored here should be useful for journalism educators in other contexts approaching the common challenge of working with students to develop ‘data confidence’.

中文翻译:

热衷于改变:适应数据新闻技能进行数字竞选

传统上,新闻学是通过“教学医院”类型的模型进行教学的,该模型涉及一系列通过经验积累的隐性专业技能(Anderson,Glaisyer,Smith和Rothfeld,2011年)。本文报告了为新闻课程中的数字竞选单位采用数据新闻学教学方法的方法。主要重点是通过发展相关技术技能来建立信心,如戴维斯和库伦(Davies and Cullen,2016)所说的“定量扫盲”。尽管有很多方法可以解决转向“数据新闻学”的问题(Coddington,2015年),但与学生一起教授数据和计算新闻学方面的知识可能会很困难,因为对技术和数学技能的关注与新闻学学生的自我认同相抵触。作为作家或类似人物(Nguyen和Lugo-Ocando,2015年)。迈耶和兰德(Meyer and Land,2005)的“阈值概念”教学理论被用来对实践活动的情感方面进行思考,以发展“数据信心”。新闻学长期以来一直吸引着具有社会正义感并且想要“有所作为”的学生(Vromen,2016年),挑战学生欣赏在线参与的社会变化环境通常足以激发学生发展技术技能。此处探讨的示例对于在其他情况下与与学生合作以发展“数据信心”的共同挑战的新闻教育工作者来说应该是有用的。新闻学长期以来一直吸引着具有社会正义感并且想要“有所作为”的学生(Vromen,2016年),挑战学生欣赏在线参与的社会变化环境通常足以激发学生发展技术技能。此处探讨的示例对于在其他情况下与与学生合作以发展“数据信心”的共同挑战的新闻教育工作者来说应该是有用的。新闻学长期以来一直吸引着具有社会正义感并且想要“有所作为”的学生(Vromen,2016年),挑战学生欣赏在线参与的社会变化环境通常足以激发学生发展技术技能。此处探讨的示例对于在其他情况下与与学生合作以发展“数据信心”的共同挑战的新闻教育工作者来说应该是有用的。
更新日期:2018-05-09
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