The 3rd European Data and Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production and 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.
Held in Malaga, Spain, the conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. It will be followed by a day of workshops and tutorials.
This is the 3rd edition of the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference. The 1st edition was held in 2017 in Dublin, Ireland, and the 2nd edition was held in 2018, in Cardiff, Wales.
Submissions
The 3rd European Data and Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production and 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.
Held in Malaga, Spain, the conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. It will be followed by a day of workshops and tutorials.
We invite the submission of both academic research-focused 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 this template. Industry talks are also encouraged, which can be submitted to the main submission site as brief descriptions highlighting the topics and key themes of the talk and the relevance to the conference, using this form. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are also welcome, see below.
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
- News games and gamification of News
- 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 journal special issue (tbc).
For any questions about submissions or the conference, please email us, contact one of the organisers directly, or get in touch via twitter.
Submissions should be received by 23:59 UTC on 4th April 2019
Workshop Proposals
Submissions are also welcomed for ½ day workshops/tutorials to be given on the 2nd day of the conference. These could be practical/introductory sessions on topics/tools related to the themes of the conference. Workshop/Tutorial proposals should include information on the workshop/tutorial topic, the maximum number of attendees, and any space/equipment requirements, and can be submitted through the main submission site using this form.
For any questions about submissions or the conference, please email us, contact one of the organisers directly, or get in touch via twitter.