Abstract
The study is based on participant observation conducted among the staff of Estadao Dados, and on open interviews with individuals relevant to the formation and diffusion of this type of journalism in Brazil. Computational and network communication technologies are understood to be imbued with a hacker ethic, characterized by technophilia and cooperativism. As the logic of computer network communications is incorporated by journalists, these two typical values of the hacker spread to the journalistic professional culture, whose central ethical element is objectivism. Values of hacker culture were manifested clearly in the ethos of the observed Data-Driven Journalism specialists, whose duties require technical expertise and collaboration with professionals and dilettantes in the field of computer science. Results of field research indicate that Data-Driven Journalism is one of the responses developed by journalists in reaction to economic and identity crises now facing contemporary journalism.
Highlights
The study is based on participant observation conducted among the staff of Estadão Dados, and open interviews with individuals relevant to the formation and diffusion of this type of journalism in Brazil
Data-driven Journalism (DDJ) is a set of practices derived from the tradition of Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) and Precision Journalism (JP), which in the mid-2000s have been reinvigorated by the development of information technology and telecommunications, on the one hand, and the changes they precipitated in the industrial media model, on the other
This paper reports the results of a doctoral research focused on the ethos and beliefs of a group of Brazilian professionals dedicated to DDJ (Träsel, 2014a)
Summary
The study is based on participant observation conducted among the staff of Estadão Dados, and open interviews with individuals relevant to the formation and diffusion of this type of journalism in Brazil. Rüdiger (2008) defines cyberculture as a manifestation of technological thinking in everyday life, of which the most important expression, for this study, is hacker ethic (Himanen, 2001; Coleman, 2013) This ethic is based on a predisposition to technophilia and cooperativeness, that is, the belief that machinery can solve all human problems, whatever their nature, and the valuing of sharing and transparency, expressed as the free flow of information. It imbues the computer of a collaborative spirit that is reflected in horizontal production practices and circulation of cultural goods (Bruns, 2005; Streeter, 2011). Digital journalism emerges in this context, and differentiates itself from television, radio or print journalism by the use of network communication platforms for news circulation and the incorporation of its interactive capabilities in production routines (Pavlik, 2001)
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