Guest Lecture by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray on Digital Methods and Data Journalism

The Data School is proud to announce a guest lecture by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray. Their lecture will examine how new tools and methods from internet research and the social sciences might be used by digital journalists to improve coverage of complex issues. The talk is based on their work on this area as Fellows at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University

The lecture will be held on Monday, 27 October 2014, 11.30 am to 12.30 am at Drift 21, Sweelinckzaal (room 0.05), Utrecht Univeristy. The lecture was initially planned as a guest lecture for students who participate in the fourth edition of Data School, but we decided to open up the lecture for the interested audience.

Please join us for a short talk (30 min) and afterwards a Q & A (30 min)!

To get an impression of what they are going to talk about have a look at the slides of a presentation they provided at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.

About the speakers:
Liliana Bounegru is a new media researcher at the University of Amsterdam focusing on digital methods, controversy mapping and data journalism. She is working on the European project EMAPS (Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science), which maps public debates around climate change and is led by French sociologist of science and anthropologist Bruno Latour. Liliana is also a member of the Digital Methods Initiative research group, and a Phd candidate studying data journalism at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the University of Ghent (Belgium).

Jonathan Gray is Director of Policy and Research at Open Knowledge, an award winning not-for-profit organisation dedicated to opening up public information, research and culture to benefit the lives of citizens around the world. He studies philosophy and the history of ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London. Additionally Jonathan is Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam and Tow Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University.