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Tom 12 Nr 3: Fall 2019

Data literacy among journalists: A skills-assessment based approach

  • Ragne Kouts-Klemm
DOI
https://doi.org/10.19195/1899-5101.12.3(24).2
Przesłane
września 4, 2019
Opublikowane
2019-09-04

Abstrakt

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.