This year's Computation + Journalism Symposium will take place in New York
City at Columbia University on October 24-25. We are now accepting submissions
for papers and demonstrations--The deadline is August 29, 2014, with
accepted papers being announced September 15, 2014.
Details here: http://symposium2014.computation-and-journalism.com/
Why this meeting?
We live in a society that is increasingly dependent on data and
computation, a dependence that often evolves invisibly, without
substantial critical assessment or accountability. Far from
virtual, inert quantities, data and computation exert real forces
in the physical world, shaping and defining systems of power that
will play larger and larger roles in people's lives.
Journalists, "the explainers of last resort," need to adapt
responsibly—finding and creating new kinds of "stories" that
respond directly to this new societal condition, whether that
“story” be an actual written piece, a data visualization, an API or
database, or even something hot off the 3D printer.
What are we looking for?
Computation+Journalism is a forum for discussing the ways
journalism is and should be adapting in the face of the
quantitative turn in society. We invite the participation of a
broad range of thinkers, doers, and storytellers to this
interdisciplinary meeting, a hybridization of journalism and the
computing and data sciences. We want to hear from journalists with
an interest in, or experience in, developing new technologies or
applications, and from data and computer scientists working in
news, or storytelling broadly, and collaborating or hoping to
collaborate with journalistic organizations.
Deadline for submissions: August 29, 2014
Program Committee:
Lawrence Birnbaum, Northwestern University
Andrew DeVigal, University of Oregon
Scott Klein, ProPublica
Susan McGregor, Columbia University
Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Microsoft Research
Cheryl Phillips, Stanford University
Arkaitz Zubiaga, University of Warwick
(Additional program committee members to be added shortly)
Organizing Committee:
Nicholas Diakopoulos, University of Maryland
Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark Hansen, Columbia University
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Nick Diakopoulos, Ph.D.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University
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