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Abstract
This article explores the existing research literature on data journalism. Over the past years, this emerging journalistic practice has attracted significant attention from researchers in different fields and produced an increasing number of publications across a variety of channels. To better understand its current state, we surveyed the published academic literature between 1996 and 2015 and selected a corpus of 40 scholarly works that studied data journalism and related practices empirically. Analyzing this corpus with both quantitative and qualitative techniques allowed us to clarify the development of the literature, influential publications, and possible gaps in the research caused by the recurring use of particular theoretical frameworks and research designs. This article closes with proposals for future research in the field of data-intensive newswork.
Highlights
In late August 2010, around 50 international journalists and researchers convened in Amsterdam for a new roundtable conference
We go into detail about the current state of data journalism research and provide a citation and collaboration analysis
Where was the research on data journalism produced? Geo-coding the first affiliation of each author as they were mentioned in a publication, we found that most researchers came from institutions in Europe (38) and North America (29)
Summary
In late August 2010, around 50 international journalists and researchers convened in Amsterdam for a new roundtable conference. The publication that documented this meeting – ‘Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?’ (European Journalism Centre, 2010) – helped to shape the early discourse around a practice that has since been adopted by individuals and organizations all over the world. As academics across a variety of disciplines have taken notice, the research literature has grown tremendously – far beyond journalism studies itself. 1007) that often defaulted toward hopeful or fearful statements of how the practice would affect the future of journalism. To counter this trend, Anderson recommended studies that used political, cultural, organizational, technological, or field perspectives for their research – in effect following and extending Schudson’s (2005) typology of the sociology of news. While the extent of his influence is unclear, the field changed rapidly: only 2 years later, together with Fink, Anderson spoke of ‘an explosion in data journalism-oriented scholarship’ (Fink and Anderson, 2015: 476). Lewis (2015) attested to a ‘rapidly growing body’ (p. 322) of scientific studies investigating the field (as mentioned in Loosen et al, 2015: 2)
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