%0 Journal Article
%T Big Data and Journalism: How Data Journalism Can Transform Our Understanding of Democracy, Participation and Journalism?
%A £¿zlem Erkmen
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%D 2018
%X Today, due to the interaction with smart devices, every single person contribute regularly to the production of data. The Internet of Things and the datafication of everyday life, deeply transforms our norms on governance and social life. The question is to be able to use this bulk data in order to add value to our daily routines. While citizens face the challenge of organizing their day without being lost into it, journalists must adapt themselves to new technological opportunities to adopt it in newsmaking. These challenges brought into life a new understanding of doing journalism: data-driven journalism. We owe this term to WikiLeaks 2010. Academic interest on the subject starts nearly simultaneously to the leak. There is a rich literature discussing its connection to technology and digitization, as well as to freedom of expression, transparency and democracy. However, professional and scholar work on data journalism is still in a nascent condition in Turkey. The transformation of journalism with data-driven processes may contribute to: 1. the accountability of governments by allowing journalists to investigate deeper 2. the transparency of public institutions by oppressing them to share data on their activities 3. the objectivity of news stories by strengthening the journalistic autonomy from news sources 4. citizen participation to democratic processes. The manuscript, mainly a theoretical contribution to the emerging discussion in Turkish, consists of a literature review on data journalism and focus on the above-mentioned dimensions of the practice with its relation to democratization. Some ethical and technical challenges to the democratizing function of data journalism are also highlightened
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%K demokrasi
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/akil/issue/38244/464511