Liliana Bounegru, Author at Social Science Space

Liliana Bounegru

Liliana Bounegru is leading the European Journalism Centre’s Data Driven Journalism initiative, one of the main programmes for training, resources and networking in the area of data journalism. Liliana is also a new media researcher at the University of Amsterdam where she works on the Digital Methods Initiative and on the collaborative project EMAPS (Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science), led by the sociologist Bruno Latour. She is also PhD candidate studying data journalism at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the University of Ghent (Belgium). She blogs about her work at lilianabounegru.org and tweets at @bb_liliana.

Why Not Give Journalists a Tip on Data-Driven Sources

Liliana Bounegru looks at how media scholars have leveraged digital data and algorithmic accountability. In times of shrinking news budgets and staff cuts journalists can turn to such readily available sources of data as a way to understand public engagement with major issues.