ABSTRACT

In Brazil, inequalities are visually represented in its favelas. These neighborhoods are usually comprised of low-income informal settlements neglected by governments and often forgotten by mainstream media. The pervasive nature of information and communications technology (ICT) has brought new ways to produce news content in the media industry, giving voice to these communities. Thus, small, alternative, community, or non-mainstream media became a vital terrain of opposition activism. Drawing on user participation, collaboration, and data journalism theories, this article analyzes three alternative media organizations (Agência Mural, data_labe, and Favela em Pauta), which proposed producing data-driven content by, for, and about favelas through a mixed-method research design. Results show that four contributing factors tend to help these organizations to produce data stories despite these challenges: citizen participation, activism, collaboration, and humanizing data. The article concludes by demonstrating how elements developed in these initiatives and presents an agenda for future research.

摘要

在巴西，不平等在其贫民窟中得到了直观体现。这些社区通常由被政府忽视且经常被主流媒体遗忘的低收入非正式住区组成。信息和通信技术 (ICT) 的无处不在为媒体行业提供了制作新闻内容的新方法，为这些社区提供了发言权。因此，小型、另类、社区或非主流媒体成为反对派激进主义的重要领域。借鉴用户参与、协作和数据新闻理论，本文分析了三个替代媒体组织（Agência Mural、data_labe 和 Favela em Pauta），它们提议由贫民窟、为贫民窟和关于贫民窟制作数据驱动的内容通过混合方法研究设计。结果表明，尽管存在这些挑战，四个促成因素往往有助于这些组织制作数据故事：公民参与、激进主义、协作和人性化数据。文章最后展示了元素如何在这些倡议中发展，并提出了未来研究的议程。