Data literacy among journalists: A skills-assessment based approach

• Authors: Ragne Kõuts-Klemm
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Datafication brings with it the challenges for journalists to fulfill their historical role as mediators of social processes to their audiences. Journalism has been a rather humanistic field, where journalists tell stories, but do not deal with the analysis and interpretation of numbers. For the current study a methodological tool was developed to measure data literacy among journalists in Estonia. The study confirms that data literacy is acknowledged by journalists as a requirement of future journalism, but their actual skills are still low. Journalists feel more comfortable with data presented in familiar forms. There is a strong tendency that data literacy develops when the skills needed for data processing are in actual use.

Keywords

EN

data literacy; journalism; datafication; statistics; research data

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Komunikacji Społecznej
• Journal: Central European Journal of Communication
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 3(24)
• Pages: 299-315

Dates

published

2019-08-08

Contributors

author

Ragne Kõuts-Klemm

• University of Tartu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.19195/1899-5101.12.3(24).2