The promise of computational journalism

Journalism Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-171

  Flew, Terry ^a   Spurgeon, Christina ^a   Daniel, Anna ^a   Swift, Adam ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizen journalism; Computational journalism; Data visualisation; Data based reporting; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865875507     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2011.616655     Document Type: Article

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