[Air-L] CfP: European Data and Computational Journalism Conference

[Bahareh Heravi]

Call for Papers

*European Data and Computational Journalism Conference*
<http://datajconf.com/>
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
6th and 7th July 2017
http://datajconf.com/

Submission deadline: 30th April 2017

The 1st European Data and Computational Journalism Conference invites
extended abstract submissions for talks to be presented in Dublin, Ireland
on 6th July 2017. This conference aims to bring together industry,
practitioners and academics from the fields of journalism and news
production, information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a
multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research
and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism.

We invite the submission of both academic research and industry-focused
talks for the conference, on the subjects of  journalism, data journalism,
and information, data, social and computer sciences. Academic talks should
be submitted as 2-page extended abstracts, using the template available at
http://datajconf.com/submissions/extended_abstract_template.docx. Industry
talks should be submitted as brief talk descriptions, highlighting the key
themes of the talk and the relevance to the conference.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Application of data and computational journalism within newsrooms
- Data driven investigations
- Data storytelling
- Open data for journalism, storytelling, transparency and accountability
- Algorithms, transparency and accountability
- Automated, robot and chatbot journalism
- Newsroom software and tools
- ‘Post-fact’ journalism and the impact of data
- User experience and interactivity
- Data and Computational Journalism education
- Post-desktop news provision/interaction
- Data mining news sources
- Visualisation and presentation
- Bias, ethics, transparency and truth in Data Journalism
- Newsroom challenges with respect to data journalism, best practices,
success and failure stories

Extended Abstracts presented at the conference will be archived in
proceedings compiled by the Library of University College Dublin. Selected
full papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special
issue of the JOMEC journal, or to an issue of Digital Journalism,
Journalism Studies, or Journalism Practice.

This full day conference with keynotes from prominent industry figures
alongside accepted academic talks will be followed by two half day
workshops – an ‘Introduction to Data Journalism’ for those seeking an
introduction to the field, and a ‘Computational and Data Journalism
Unconference’, providing time and space to discuss and explore topics as
decided by the participants.

For more information please visit: http://datajconf.com/
Follow us on Twitter for news about the conference: @datajconf
<https://twitter.com/datajconf>

*Programme Committee: *
James Hamilton (Stanford University, U.S.)
Nicholas Diakopoulos (University of Maryland, U.S.)
Meredith Broussard (New York University, U.S.)
Cheryl Phillips (Stanford University, U.S.)
Eddy Borges Rey (University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K.)
Marc Esteve del Valle (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Miranda McLachlan (Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K.)
Stefano Ceccon (The Times and The Sunday Times, U.K.)
Bahareh Heravi (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Glyn Mottershead (Cardiff University, Wales, U.K.)
Martin Chorley (Cardiff University, Wales, U.K.)
+ more tba ...

*Organisers: *
Bahareh Heravi, University College Dublin
Glyn Mottershead, Cardiff University
Martin Chorley, Cardiff University


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Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi
Assistant Professor
Postgraduate Director
School of Information and Communication Studies
University College Dublin
Bahareh.net | @Bahareh360