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Call for papers: European Data and Computational Journalism Conference, Dublin, July 6-7

Jonny Greatrex

The European Data and Computational Journalism Conference takes place at University College Dublin on July 6-7.

Applications are open for colleagues from practice and academic courses to submit proposals for papers and/or talks.

Topics for consideration include:

  • Data and computational journalism
  • Data-driven investigations
  • Data storytelling
  • Open data
  • Algorithms, transparency and accountability
  • Automated journalism
  • Newsroom software, tools and UX
  • ‘Post-fact’ journalism and the impact of data
  • Data and Computational Journalism education
  • Data mining
  • Visualisation

Academic talks should be a two-page extended abstract, a template can be found here: datajconf.com/submissions/ED….

Presented abstracts will be archived in proceedings compiled by the Library of University College Dublin.

Practice/industry talks should highlight the key themes to cover and their relevance to the conference.

Selected full papers from the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue of the JOMEC journal, or to an issue of Digital Journalism, Journalism Studies, or Journalism Practice.

For more details contact hello@datajconf.com or contact the organisers directly datajconf.com/#organisers